mesh between AR5008 and AR5212

Adrian Chadd adrian at freebsd.org
Wed Jan 23 13:55:10 UTC 2013


Hi,

Please list the commands that you've used?

And is anything logged in dmesg?

A lot of mesh fixes are in -HEAD, have you tried that?



Adrian


On 23 January 2013 05:11, paranormal <paranormal at isgroup.com.ua> wrote:
> Today I was trying what mesh is.
>
> I have ap (stable) atheros 5008  and my laptop (stable) atheros 5212.
>
> Following instruction https://wiki.freebsd.org/WifiMesh
>
>
> both hosts have in rc.conf:
> ifconfig_wlan0="inet 192.168.11.1 netmask 255.255.255.240 meshid mybsd
> channel 3"
>
> both sta was ESTAB.
>
> The problem was:
> After some time I was going mad.
> From my ap I can ping my notebook (after hard coding arp), and tcpdump
> running on my notebook show my echo-request packets, but my laptop was
> dumb. Ping from my notebook never ran, ping command ran but without
> packets...
>
> The same situation with arp. Laptop got ap's arp, but ap never received
> arp from my laptop.
>
> Any idea?


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