Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 13:41:57 +0200 From: Andrea Campi <andrea+freebsd_net@webcom.it> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPPoE on Atheros in hostap mode Message-ID: <20040626114156.GA88328@webcom.it> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0406251057120.1679-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> References: <20040625171050.GA83855@webcom.it> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0406251057120.1679-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 11:00:16AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > So, questions: am I doing anything wrong? Is this supposed to work? Is
> > ath0 somehow mangling the data it sends to netgraph?
> > I'd be willing to put some effort in this if it's something fixable, I
> > just need pointers.
>
> It looks like the atheros driver is not returning
> any ethernet header information.
>
> The MAC address is important for PPPoE.
Any pointer on how to go about fixing it: what to look for, or even a
driver to take as a model? I haven't had time yet to give the code more
than a quick glance. From what I gathered looking around it seems someone
is using PPPoE over at least wi, so this issue is probably in ath only,
not in the generic 802.11 layer, right?
> BTW.
> tcpdump is the best way to look at the transfer as it can decode the
> packets.
Yes, and that was the first tool I used; however, I wanted to give the
minimum amount of information sufficient to plainly see there IS some
issue.
Bye,
Andrea
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