rpi2 as wireless router

Herminio Hernandez, Jr. herminio.hernandezjr at gmail.com
Wed Jul 20 18:05:07 UTC 2016


I ran tcpdump on both freebsd and my laptop running Debian. Freebsd sees
the DHCP Discover and then sends the DHCP Offer, but never receives the
DHCP Request. Debian sends the DHCP Discover, but never sees the DHCP
Offer, therefore never sends the DHCP Request.

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 11:30 PM, Peter Jeremy <peter at rulingia.com> wrote:

> On 2016-Jul-19 13:26:19 -0700, "Herminio Hernandez, Jr." <
> herminio.hernandezjr at gmail.com> wrote:
> >I am trying to set freebsd as a wifi router on my rpi2. My Iphone can see
> >the ssid but it is failing to conect. FreeBSD can see the phone:
> >
> >
> >root at rpi2:~ # ifconfig wlan0 list sta
> >ADDR               AID CHAN RATE RSSI IDLE  TXSEQ  RXSEQ CAPS FLAG
> >iphone-macaddress    1    6   1M 20.0    0     11  44944 EPS  AQEPHTR RSN
> >HTCAP WME
> >
> >I am running tcp dump and I see the dhcp requests and replies, but there
> is
> >no connection establishing. Is there anything I am missing.
>
> That means the iPhone is associated and you are seeing traffic from it
> but it seems it isn't seeing traffic from your AP.  What is the output
> from "ifconfig -a"?  How far through the DHCP negotiation does the
> iPhone get and what IP address are you sending in the DHCP response?
>
> Do you have a Unix-like host that you can run as a client so you can
> run tcpdump on it?
>
> --
> Peter Jeremy
>


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