Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:24:48 -0700 From: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Oddity with an(4): Channel reported by ifconfig is wrong Message-ID: <20070711172448.GA42994@bunrab.catwhisker.org>
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This may be an off-by-one issue: I have two APs with the same SSID;
one on channel 1; the other on channel 6. But:
g1-1(7.0-C)[1] uname -a
FreeBSD g1-1.catwhisker.org. 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #480: Wed Jul =
11 09:44:13 PDT 2007 root@g1-1.catwhisker.org.:/common/S4/obj/usr/src/s=
ys/CANARY i386
g1-1(7.0-C)[2]=20
g1-1(7.0-C)[3] ifconfig
xl0: flags=3D8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=3D9<RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU>
ether 00:08:74:e5:95:cb
media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
status: no carrier
fwe0: flags=3D8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=3D8<VLAN_MTU>
ether 46:4f:c0:76:40:41
ch 1 dma -1
fwip0: flags=3D8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
lladdr 44.4f.c0.0.30.76.40.41.a.2.ff.fe.0.0.0.0
plip0: flags=3D108810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> metric 0 mt=
u 1500
lo0: flags=3D8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5=20
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128=20
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000=20
wi0: flags=3D8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
ether 00:02:2d:5b:2c:78
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (none)
status: no carrier
ssid catwhisker channel 1 (2412 Mhz 11b)
stationname "FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node"
authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1 wepkey 1:40-bit txpowmax 100
bmiss 7 scanvalid 60
an0: flags=3D8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
ether 00:40:96:32:19:a9
inet 172.17.1.1 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 172.17.255.255
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps)
status: associated
ssid 1:lmdhw-net channel 5 (56992 Mhz Turbo)
stationname FreeBSD
authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1 txpowmax 0 rtsthreshold 0
fragthreshold 0 bmiss 0 mcastrate 0 roaming DEVICE
g1-1(7.0-C)[4]=20
As you see, the an0 NIC (a PCMCIA part) is the only one in use (as
the miniPCI wi0 still doesn't associate).
I don't expect that this is a critical issue, but it could be confusing.
Peace,
david
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David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org
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