Re: hostap mode and wpa-psk with ral(4) problem

Hi,

On 3/5/06, Jacco Braat <jacco_at_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 ?

> Jacco
> On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 16:39 +0100, Denis Perisa [DARKMAN] wrote:
> > I also have problem with this, I use rt2500 chip (ral) and hostap is
> > working, but when wep is set PC does not seem to find way back to client.
> > I get proper request for packets in tcpdump but replty is trauncated
> > because freebsd cannot find way back. I tried ping from host and it say
> > network is down or something like that.
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