Re: cant get bridgeing on iwi to work

Johan Johansen <[email protected]> wrote:

> My Soekris 4501 is running FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE and is equipped with
> Intel wireless 2915a/b/g-card in the PCI-slot. The driver is
> iwi-firmware-2.4_2 from ports.
> 
> This works ok as a router, but bridgeing through iwi0 wont work.
> Actually, tcpdump show me that the data is leaving the iwi0, but
> they are not.
> 
> iwicontrol tell me that "Number of transmission failures" is increased
> by 1 for each packet trying to leave the interface.
> 
> Shouldnt this work?

> Some details:
> %ifconfig
> iwi0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>   inet6 fe80::213:ceff:fecc:fd8%iwi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 
>   ether 00:13:ce:cc:0f:d8
>   media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/5.5Mbps)
>   status: associated
>   ssid johan-tst channel 1 bssid 00:14:1b:5b:76:20
>   authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpowmax 100 protmode CTS bintval 100
> sis1: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>   options=8<VLAN_MTU>
>   inet6 fe80::200:24ff:fec0:a275%sis1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 
>   ether 00:00:24:c0:a2:75
>   media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
>   status: active
> bridge0: flags=8041<UP,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>   ether ac:de:48:ad:d5:16
>   priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15 maxage 20
>   member: sis1 flags=7<LEARNING,DISCOVER,STP>
>           port 3 priority 128 path cost 55 forwarding
>   member: iwi0 flags=7<LEARNING,DISCOVER,STP>
>           port 1 priority 128 path cost 55 forwarding

Bridging requires the wireless interface
to be in adhoc or hostap mode.

Fabian
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http://www.fabiankeil.de/

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