From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 23 21:09:21 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6B05106567B for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 21:09:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from w8hdkim@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qc0-f182.google.com (mail-qc0-f182.google.com [209.85.216.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D85A8FC14 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 21:09:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qcsg15 with SMTP id g15so4241956qcs.13 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 14:09:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=65Nn40ePPgxMahxPoFYA7wtabjGsElJAqoOrjGbZYBY=; b=BYGcXBq98QEGjhjvyX2E6kgDUCHNOIMAwxtdHVp+nTytDuINLyHT0fiSSO7v7+PeN+ tfZG6+u6h8GTcUutuchytSXs33LIa6+3PZBieK9eMCzFEMFlEjqcBg0xidD/7l+ZXAy6 0LnOEFqJPxbKiE3CZVSadkvBpj8YM6bKdnFPsvMUhavC/No4aEbizJjj41awFrhz0UE6 SPx3eZXcZmRtLF7/1JYTymXnNYLPoPYYjMKY0nNTagCtBhea5Gq7daY3ZvygjV130qXd F9nrQDE8fggT6Od9nNS8F+wM9d+KTP6luB/rYOLRRwC2hJm6Dt5tkpv/soQ5e+mXa1Zt 2Enw== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.101.193 with SMTP id d1mr26646919qao.20.1343077760622; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 14:09:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.39.12 with HTTP; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 14:09:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:09:20 -0400 Message-ID: From: Kim Culhan To: Adrian Chadd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: multi vap Multi-SSID unique bssid eliminates client connect failures X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 21:09:22 -0000 On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 23 July 2012 13:34, Kim Culhan wrote: >> Setting the configuration with ex: >> >> create_args_wlan0="wlanmode hostap wlanaddr f8:d1:11:38:3c:e5" >> >> Results in the Beacon frame source address and the BSS Id in the Beacon frame >> both being set the same value. > > Right. but you had that same MAC set for all VAPs? > So each of your hostap instances has the same MAC? At some point they were the same, which worked very poorly, and later in a way where they were supposed be automagically assigned unique numbers. At that point there would be 2 addresses of 4 the same until I arrived at the latest configuration. -kim