Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 11:32:05 -0800 From: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> To: Dominique Goncalves <dominique.goncalves@gmail.com> Cc: Jacco Braat <jacco@jbraat.demon.nl>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, "Denis Perisa \[DARKMAN\]" <crohack@vip.hr> Subject: Re: hostap mode and wpa-psk with ral(4) problem Message-ID: <440B3CB5.80901@errno.com> In-Reply-To: <7daacbbe0603051015q50eb0ab9y37eac0beaff45792@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060305120018.EEC9B16A424@hub.freebsd.org> <440B0620.8080309@vip.hr> <1141574344.1146.18.camel@godzilla.jubba.nl> <7daacbbe0603051015q50eb0ab9y37eac0beaff45792@mail.gmail.com>
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Dominique Goncalves wrote: > Hi, > > On 3/5/06, Jacco Braat <jacco@jbraat.demon.nl> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> more people have problem with ral driver in hostap mode. the maintainer >> knows about it and promised to look into it before 6.1 release >> http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ral/forum/read.php?f=1&i=225&t=163#reply_225 >> >> authentication is succesfull, but there is a problem with arp and dhcp. >> >> in sys/net80211/ieee80211_input.c (ieee80211_deliver_data) there is some >> code to bridge incomming packets to other connected stations. It looks >> like the driver does not handle these packets correctly. >> >> ifconfig wifi0 -apbridge >> >> disables this feature, then you should be able to connect normally > > Thanks! with apbridge disabled I can now connect my PSP. > > What is the impact of disabling this feature ? It may disable communication between clients associated to the same ap. With -apbridge you need to explicitly handle this with forwarding rules (unless if_bridge has gotten smart enough to forward rx'd packets from an interface back to the same interface). Sam
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