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Date:      Wed, 15 Mar 2017 20:49:04 -0400
From:      Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com>
To:        Peter Pauly <ppauly@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: WIFI as access point
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Peter Pauly wrote:
> Do you need:  
> 
> sysctl net.inet.ip.forwarding=1
gateway_enable="YES" sets net.inet.ip.forwarding to 1



> 
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 8:36 PM, Peter Pauly <ppauly@gmail.com 
> <mailto:ppauly@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Nevermind - I see the:  gateway_enable="YES"
> 
>     On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 8:31 PM, Peter Pauly <ppauly@gmail.com
>     <mailto:ppauly@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>         How are you routing packets between the two interfaces?
> 
>         On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 8:18 PM, Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com
>         <mailto:luzar722@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>                 On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 12:18 PM, Ernie Luzar
>                 <luzar722@gmail.com <mailto:luzar722@gmail.com>
>                 <mailto:luzar722@gmail.com <mailto:luzar722@gmail.com>>>
>                 wrote:
> 
>                     Dima Panov wrote:
> 
> 
>                         Ernie Luzar wrote:
> 
>                             Hello List;
> 
>                             I have this wifi card
>                            
>                 http://www.dlink.com/al/sq/products/dwa-556-xtreme-n-pci-express-desktop-adapter
>                 <http://www.dlink.com/al/sq/products/dwa-556-xtreme-n-pci-express-desktop-adapter>;
>                            
>                 <http://www.dlink.com/al/sq/products/dwa-556-xtreme-n-pci-express-desktop-adapter
>                 <http://www.dlink.com/al/sq/products/dwa-556-xtreme-n-pci-express-desktop-adapter>>;
> 
> 
>                             I recovered it from a decommissioned win7
>                 box. On win7 this
>                             wifi card
>                             could only be used to connect to a router
>                 access point.
> 
>                             If I add this wifi card to my FreeBSD 11.0
>                 system can it be
>                             configured
>                             to function as an access point?
> 
> 
>                         This card is fully support by ath driver as
>                 "AR5418 Wireless Network
>                         Adapter".
>                         Copmlete examples with various AP setup
>                 described in manual page
>                         for driver.
> 
> 
> 
>                     I have followed the handbook "30.3.6 Freebsd Host
>                 Access Points"
>                     Chapter in setting up this ath0 wifi card that is
>                 installed into my
>                     gateway box that has a LAN on it. A win7 laptop can
>                 see the ssid and
>                     connect to it. But it can not gain public internet
>                 access. Win7 wifi
>                     trouble shooting says no valid ip address and not
>                 end point. To me
>                     this sounds like a network configuration problem on
>                 my Freebsd
>                     gateway box.
> 
>                     /root >ifconfig wlan0
>                     wlan0:
>                 flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>
>                 metric 0 mtu 0
>                             ether 00:18:e7:d5:b3:84
>                             inet 10.0.10.100 netmask 0xffffff00
>                 broadcast 10.0.10.255
>                             nd6
>                 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>                             media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet
>                 autoselect mode 11ng
>                             <hostap>
>                             status: running
>                             ssid FBSD_AP channel 1 (2412 MHz 11g ht/40+)
>                 bssid
>                             00:18:e7:d5:b3:84
>                             regdomain FCC indoor ecm authmode
>                 WPA2/802.11i privacy MIXED
>                             deftxkey 3 AES-CCM 2:128-bit AES-CCM
>                 3:128-bit txpower 27
>                             scanvalid 60
>                             protmode CTS ampdulimit 64k ampdudensity 8
>                 shortgi wme burst
>                             dtimperiod 1 -dfs
>                             groups: wlan
> 
> 
> 
>                     /root >cat /etc/hostapd.conf
>                     interface=wlan0
>                     debug=2
>                     ctrl_interface=/var/run/hostapd
>                     ctrl_interface_group=wheel
>                     ssid=FBSD_AP
>                     wpa=2
>                     wpa_passphrase=test
>                     wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
>                     wpa_pairwise=CCMP
> 
> 
>                     /root >cat /etc/rc.conf
>                     Snip
> 
>                     gateway_enable="YES"
> 
>                     ifconfig_em0="DHCP"                # from cable modem
>                     ifconfig_vge0="inet 10.0.10.2"     # to LAN switch
> 
>                     # Wifi in hostap mode
>                     wlans_ath0="wlan0"
>                     create_args_wlan0="wlanmode hostap"
>                     ifconfig_wlan0="inet 10.0.10.100 netmask
>                 255.255.255.0 ssid FBSD_AP
>                     mode  11g"
>                     hostapd_enable="YES"
> 
>                     dhcpd_enable="YES"
>                     dhcpd_conf="/usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf"
>                     dhcpd_ifaces="vge0"         # ASRock Server Lan Nic
>                     dhcpd_flags="-q"
> 
> 
>                     This general config has been working for many years,
>                 since release
>                     3.0 of Freebsd. The only thing new is the wifi card
>                 being used as a
>                     gateway hostap.
> 
>                     I do not understand what this is doing
>                     fconfig_wlan0="inet 10.0.10.100 netmask 255.255.255.0
> 
>                     I can not find any documentation on this as to it's
>                 purpose.
> 
>                     I am trying to duplucate my cisco wifi router config
>                 which has this
>                     security mode = wpa2 personal
>                     encrytion = tkip or aes
>                     network mode = BGN
> 
> 
>                     Thanks for any help you can give me
> 
> 
>                 Peter Pauly wrote:
>                 You're serving DHCP on your LAN interface, but not on
>                 the WiFi interface.
> 
> 
>             Thanks I corrected that now.
> 
>             Now the win7 wifi stays connected but has no internet access.
> 
>             /root >ifconfig wlan0 list scan
>             ADDR               AID CHAN RATE RSSI IDLE  TXSEQ  RXSEQ
>             CAPS FLAG
>             0c:ee:e6:ba:6f:26    1    1  54M 26.5  135     16   8288
>             EPS  AQE RSN WME
> 
>             I also see a dhcp lease for the ip address that win7 wifi
>             says it has.
> 
>             What can be the cause of no internet access on the wifi hostap?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 




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