From owner-freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Wed Dec 23 15:08:33 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65648A50C8B for ; Wed, 23 Dec 2015 15:08:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sm@ara-ler.com) Received: from mail-oi0-x22c.google.com (mail-oi0-x22c.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c06::22c]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3259E14E5 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 2015 15:08:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sm@ara-ler.com) Received: by mail-oi0-x22c.google.com with SMTP id o62so119722587oif.3 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 2015 07:08:32 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=ara-ler-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:content-transfer-encoding :in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=oxsy3lRe/sQYWIaps7d6+I33CNmH2hVTxXAFFBL5ALY=; b=bEyCPSxRuhkhK1ol2tWhwhQl8UaAah2uhhlwbYLHwafe6eEr6RvNN4tnrTXDWqlObi Z4lOV429nqkMRNVv7gizds89qKZK6f+R7k/P3mQw+0dIs8VZaMDdzSSm/v1QVKZTfgIx brRFP9846rLHupqCJIehrOglE9xxjoZGq0KrUdXmCBx9yvNsG6FxfKm+X/SP7oWMfUBj DT3fxA8jZMnjw70mVHs9779+oFqCcww6k9Y1tuVq/AUcgUUjpAmnK+Gb/rNBcWjbPF3J Z8dDYO8kEINpUQKclScgmknLQq2lk2BX8+XdAhIbe36jaTVteHR+HXTvcMwcwUDVmiYm /nNw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=oxsy3lRe/sQYWIaps7d6+I33CNmH2hVTxXAFFBL5ALY=; b=OtqwB+nk0rPzXiWXz4wY20BlWLk5Xb3szemXthZBVIZz9hl2wHjmghgnY69YaZy1cv Y0YRnmBLEkVZo4U5nQZoNmA0r2yBfDW4pr2DbOXq3MrPJ1R8QDoJA8uJZ4uaAuBiO81z klkeDApY3JzQYwuYVujuXmytVBKjbRdHHFmJ4SIgnBfokIzUWVweUiTEWLujDOgc0p7n 4PmbRKys5PPVNUquSff+JuN2ab2WgVvGqG946gmPWkJIw5yIO9Wm8Zf2CgIN2VAoOq9g u9kFVdrxV99AJwj6Boq2mXAIAjSV8HbndZTq3cGazWQKQlREitAyT81Ty7Vb7kbqzXdZ j+zQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkeT93/CIqTq2K/Elu+mtQ+E468is5GvM3OmX7FxLoOBcF1kJxQV2r4yueSuysjQp0fuV9bmw5QDukRgtcK2Ipj3xRhtQ== X-Received: by 10.202.176.66 with SMTP id z63mr14184554oie.61.1450883312228; Wed, 23 Dec 2015 07:08:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from debian.ara-ler.com ([50.243.135.133]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id sd7sm4917398oec.13.2015.12.23.07.08.31 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 23 Dec 2015 07:08:31 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 08:08:29 -0700 From: Sergey Manucharian To: "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" , "freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: forwarding didn't work if wlan0 is member of a bridge Message-ID: <20151223150829.GO3487@debian.ara-ler.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 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: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 15:08:33 -0000 Excerpts from Olivier Cochard-Labbé's message from Wed 23-Dec-15 11:31: > If wlan0 interface is member of a bridge, FreeBSD didn't reach to > forward-back packets to wireless client > > My setup is this one: > > internet gateway <--> [net0] fbsd router [net1 + wifi-hostap in bridge0] > <--> wireless client > > and the problem description: > - wireless clients didn't receive any packet back: the fbsd-router blocks > answers because it thinks wireless clients are "unreachable". > - But wireless clients can reach all IP of the fbsd-router hitself without > problem, and fbsd-router can ping them too. > - Ethernet clients connected to the same bridge0 didn't have problem I believe this is related to the fact that wifi adapter cannot have more that one MAC address. And that becomes true when it's a member of a bridge. There exist some tricky ways to overcome that though. S.