rpi2 as wireless router

Adrian Chadd adrian.chadd at gmail.com
Wed Jul 20 20:56:14 UTC 2016


Hi,

Please supply 'dmesg' and 'ifconfig -a' and maybe /etc/hostapd.conf
(minus the encryption key, of course)

Thanks!


-a


On 20 July 2016 at 11:05, Herminio Hernandez, Jr.
<herminio.hernandezjr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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