From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 7 21:55:12 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7A3F16A4BF for ; Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:55:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from white.dogwood.com (white.dogwood.com [66.91.140.178]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB41E43FB1 for ; Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:55:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dave@dogwood.com) Received: from keiki.dogwood.com (keiki.dogwood.com [192.168.231.101]) by white.dogwood.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h884t0Nn086967; Sun, 7 Sep 2003 18:55:01 -1000 (HST) (envelope-from dave@dogwood.com) Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.2.20030907184954.030eee98@white.dogwood.com> X-Sender: dave@white.dogwood.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 18:54:58 -1000 To: Sam Leffler , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org From: David Cornejo In-Reply-To: <1224159918.1062970967@melange.errno.com> References: <5.2.0.9.2.20030907120108.03169860@mail.firetide.com> <5.2.0.9.2.20030907120108.03169860@mail.firetide.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: Re: atheros adhoc mode X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 04:55:12 -0000 This is from current built within the last week, I see the problem in both B & G mode and all other radios are B, haven't been able to try A yet. I haven't tried the debug yet, I'll try that. I did a search and I think I found the bug you mention, but couldn't find it was fixed. thanks! dave c At 09:42 PM 9/7/2003 -0700, Sam Leffler wrote: > > We're evaluating the Soekris 4801 and a 5212 based mini-PCI radio - It > > works well enough in infrastructure mode, but I'm having problems with > > adhoc. > > > > When the radio is operating in adhoc mode, I see multicast traffic, but > > no unicast traffic. However, if I run tcpdump on the ath interface I get > > sporadic traffic. > > > > It's possible I'm still misconfigured, but the fact that putting the > > interface into promiscuous mode changes the behavior of the interface > > kinda points elsewhere. We have this application running fine on 4521s > > with both an & wi radios. > > > > Is this a known problem? > >No, but adhoc mode has not been well tested. 11a or 11b? What version of >the software? Have you tried enabling debugging and packet dumping on the >interface (ifconfig ath0 debug link2) to see what's happening? > >If you're getting multicast traffic but not unicast then it sounds like the >BSSID isn't setup correctly--which was a very old bug. > > Sam