Re: if_bridge and hostapd

Per Andrews suggestion, I tried turning off STP and the ports do not
block, though you do lose loop prevention.

dave c

On 6/27/06, Andrew Thompson <thompsa_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 04:08:43PM -1000, spoggle wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've run into a problem with hostapd and if_bridge:
> >
> > the kernel is 7.0 CURRENT dated Thu Jun 22 10:24:56 HST 2006
> >
> > I have a WRAP board with 2 ath and 1 sis, and I'm bridging them all
> > together.  The ath are configured as hostap, 1 running 11g and the
> > other 11a.
> >
> > I tried running this with WEP, and things work well, I can reboot and
> > things come back up and I can ping a wireless station from the LAN.
> >
> > Now, I'm trying to add in WPA and I've run into this problem.  If I
> > start hostapd from the command line, the connections work ok, the
> > stations authenticate and everybody is happy.  If I configure hostapd
> > to start at boot time, it looks like the stations authenticate -
> > ifconfig ath0 list sta shows the right thing but no packets are
> > passed,
> >
>
> Would you be able to send me your hostapd.conf, rc.conf and anything
> else I may need to try and reproduce this problem. The ports are
> blocking rather than disabled which indicates that the stp code is
> active for those ports.
>
>
> cheers,
> Andrew
>