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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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