Re: wlan: UP but not RUNNING ?

That's weird. I checkd mine (-head) and both are up and running.

What's in your config files and how do you create the interfaces?


-a


On Mon, 20 Oct 2025 at 13:35, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> wrote:

>
> This is on 14.3.
> I have configured two VAPs, the configuration is almost identical except
> for SSID.
> hostapd-s for both interfaces are also running.
> Both interfaces are UP, both have status running, but one doesn't have
> RUNNING
> in its flags.
>
> What does that mean?
>
> wlan0: flags=8903<UP,BROADCAST,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>          options=0
> ...
>          parent interface: ath0
>          media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11ng <hostap>
>          status: running
>
> wlan1: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0
> mtu 1500
>          options=0
> ...
>          parent interface: ath0
>          media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11ng <hostap>
>          status: running
>
>
> --
> Andriy Gapon
>
>
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