WDS and WPA

[Adrian Chadd]

Hi,

I've not played with DWDS at all, I'm sorry. I was hoping that someone
else would sit down and make all of that work better. I have no idea
how it is supposed to sit down and work.

Sorry!



-a


On 9 December 2013 06:14, Steven Lawrance <stl at koffein.net> wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> Over the weekend I attempted to extend my existing wireless network
> (an AP running FreeBSD with an ath card (AR5212) and WPA-PSK) using
> DWDS without much success.
>
> I followed the scripts in tools/tools/net80211/scripts/ but never saw
> anything about DWDS show up in the logs (with wlandebug
> state+scan+assoc+auth+wds+11n) on the main AP -- just the normal
> association messages when the relay node connects.
>
> The additional nodes have very similar hardware (ath cards) and all
> are running recent 10-stable i386 builds.
>
> So my first question is whether DWDS is supposed to work at all in
> combination with WPA?  (I have not yet tried it without auth/privacy.)
>
> I'm also not sure I understand the intended topology in the scripts
> setup.wds{main,relay}.  In that scenario, would "normal" clients only
> connect directly to the relays?  Can multiple relays use the exact
> same config such as in setup.wdsrelay or should they present unique
> SSIDs?  (I thought the point of WDS was to use the same SSID for
> seamless roaming between APs.)
>
> Can relays be chained or does each need to associate directly with the
> "main" AP?  Does each relay perform need to perform its own
> authentication for client stations or is that supposed to get handed
> over to the main AP?
>
> thanks!
> Steven.
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