atheros adhoc mode

David Cornejo dave at dogwood.com
Sun Sep 7 21:55:12 PDT 2003


This is from current built within the last week, I see the problem in both 
B & G mode and all other radios are B, haven't been able to try A yet.

I haven't tried the debug yet, I'll try that.

I did a search and I think I found the bug you mention, but couldn't find 
it was fixed.

thanks!
dave c

At 09:42 PM 9/7/2003 -0700, Sam Leffler wrote:
> > We're evaluating the Soekris 4801 and a 5212 based mini-PCI radio - It
> > works well enough in infrastructure mode, but I'm having problems with
> > adhoc.
> >
> > When the radio is operating in adhoc mode, I see multicast traffic, but
> > no unicast traffic.  However, if I run tcpdump on the ath interface I get
> > sporadic traffic.
> >
> > It's possible I'm still misconfigured, but the fact that putting the
> > interface into promiscuous mode changes the behavior of the interface
> > kinda points elsewhere.  We have this application running fine on 4521s
> > with both an & wi radios.
> >
> > Is this a known problem?
>
>No, but adhoc mode has not been well tested.  11a or 11b?  What version of
>the software?  Have you tried enabling debugging and packet dumping on the
>interface (ifconfig ath0 debug link2) to see what's happening?
>
>If you're getting multicast traffic but not unicast then it sounds like the
>BSSID isn't setup correctly--which was a very old bug.
>
>         Sam




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