Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:23:52 +0100 From: Monthadar Al Jaberi <monthadar@gmail.com> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: problem setting up a mesh portal with a bridge to wired lan Message-ID: <AANLkTi=%2BqNNe1dQ6LQisXG32L08fe1RTQ8s2hOiZoywy@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi,
I am having trouble finding a full documentation on how to set an mesh
portal (MPP) bridged to wired lan.
I gathered things from here and there, and here what I have came up to.
SETUP: I have a PC, and two RSPRO boards with atheros wifi. PC and one
RSPRO connected to a router.
On the mesh node (MP) my ifconfig:
wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
ether 00:15:6d:65:fe:b2
inet 192.168.1.42 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <mesh>
status: running
meshid my_mesh channel 10 (2457 MHz 11g) bssid 00:15:6d:65:fe:b2
country US ecm authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 21 scanvalid 60
protmode CTS wme burst meshttl 31 meshpeering meshforward
meshmetric AIRTIME meshpath HWMP hwmprootmode DISABLED hwmpmaxhops 31
On the mesh portal ifconfig:
arge0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>
metric 0 mtu 1500
options=80000<LINKSTATE>
ether 00:15:6d:c3:30:e5
inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 0.255.255.255
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
status: active
bridge0: flags=28943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,PPROMISC>
metric 0 mtu 1500
ether 00:15:6d:67:21:8d
inet 192.168.1.41 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15
maxage 20 holdcnt 6 proto rstp maxaddr 100 timeout 1200
root id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 ifcost 0 port 0
member: wlan0 flags=143<LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP>
ifmaxaddr 0 port 8 priority 128 path cost 370370
member: arge0 flags=143<LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP>
ifmaxaddr 0 port 4 priority 128 path cost 200000
wlan0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>
metric 0 mtu 1500
ether 00:15:6d:67:21:8d
inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 0.255.255.255
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <mesh>
status: running
meshid my_mesh channel 10 (2457 MHz 11g) bssid 00:15:6d:67:21:8d
country US ecm authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 20 scanvalid 60
protmode CTS wme burst meshttl 31 meshpeering meshforward
meshmetric AIRTIME meshpath HWMP hwmprootmode PROACTIVE hwmpmaxhops 31
>From the MPP I can ping ping the PC and internet. Also I can ping the
MP on the second RSPRO.
>From the MP I can ping the MPP, but I cant ping the PC or internet.
>From PC I can ping MPP, but not MP.
Arp broadcast goes through, but not ARP reply (got lost?). I checked
from tcpdump that the mac addresses are correct for ARP reply
destination.
I have changed these in sysctl on the MPP:
sysctl -a | grep forwarding
net.inet.ip.forwarding: 1
net.inet.ip.fastforwarding: 1
net.link.bridge.ipfw: 0
net.link.bridge.inherit_mac: 0
net.link.bridge.log_stp: 0
net.link.bridge.pfil_local_phys: 0
net.link.bridge.pfil_member: 0
net.link.bridge.pfil_bridge: 0
net.link.bridge.ipfw_arp: 0
net.link.bridge.pfil_onlyip: 0
I have no firewall enabled. Seems like something is missing to make
this work. It works if I setup the boards as AP and STA.
I also found this old post,
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2010-February/024538.html...
but didnt help me.
Thank you in advance!
--
//Monthadar Al Jaberi
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