multi vap Multi-SSID with ath on FreeBSD 10-current

Kim Culhan w8hdkim at gmail.com
Mon Jul 23 03:03:02 UTC 2012


On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22 July 2012 19:55, Kim Culhan <w8hdkim at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Looking at a pcap when running the ap with 4 vaps, behaving in the
>> usual way looking at it from
>> a client., cant connect to most of the ssid's.
>
> Hm, right.
>
>> Not finding anything remarkable looking at it with wireshark, would
>> you want to give a look
>> and see what you think?
>
> I'm knee deep in massaging the driver to be ready for the AR93xx and
> later series chips. I can give you some pointers, but I don't want to
> get too distracted by other things. :)
>
> What I'd do:
>
> * I'd look at the beacon interval (in TU - which is 1024 microseconds)
> in the beacon frames, for each VAP;
> * Then I'd look at whether the beacons you're seeing are occuring at
> regular intervals, at the above beacon intervals.
>
> Let's first establish that you're reliably transmitting each beacon
> correctly with the right interval, then we'll go from there.

Very good, that direction is greatly appreciated and I'll follow up with it.

thanks
-kim


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