kern/149516: [ath] ath(4) hostap with fake MAC/BSSID results in station dropping packets when associated

[Adrian Chadd]

You ca'nt set the high bit in the first (left hand) octet, that means
something special.

Set it to 0x0d and re-test.



Adrian


On 29 November 2012 12:45, Martin <nakal at web.de> wrote:
> Am Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:23:44 -0800
> schrieb Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org>:
>
>> >  Confirmed on 9.0-RELEASE-p3. Bug still exists.
>>
>> What's the fake mac address that you're using?
>>
>> Some extra code went into the driver which allowed for multicast group
>> keys to be programmed in correctly on later chips. They needed this to
>> be done "right" in order to support muli-vap mode with encryption.
>> This was done incorrectly in 8.x and I fixed it sometime before
>> 9.0-REL was branched. -HEAD definitely has the "right" programming.
>>
>> So, what's the fake MAC address?
>
> Hi,
>
> I am using this address:
>
> d0:0f:d0:0f:d0:0f (german for "stupid-stupid-stupid) ;)
>
> When I setup it on wlan0 and ath0, the stations can associate, but
> cannot communicate with hostapd.
>
> --
> Martin