Return-path: Received: from mail-qw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.216.46]:38215 "EHLO mail-qw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933149Ab0J1IU2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2010 04:20:28 -0400 Received: by qwf7 with SMTP id 7so907303qwf.19 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 01:20:28 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4CC93148.7090308@web.de> References: <4CC0D0F6.4080507@web.de> <4CC33E83.4020505@web.de> <201010260740.47692.helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> <4CC93148.7090308@web.de> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:20:27 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [regression]AP with hostapd 0.7.3 can't receive packets beyond authentication (2.6.36, rt73usb) From: Ivo Van Doorn To: Lee Cc: Helmut Schaa , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, >> Am Samstag 23 Oktober 2010 schrieb Lee: >>> On 22/10/10 01:47, Lee wrote: >>>> The test case is as follows: I have eth0 and wlan0 (the interface to an >>>> rt37usb device) in a bridge lan0. I have a properly configured hostapd. When I >>>> try to connect with a client to my hostapd AP, I can successfully >>>> authenticate, but all further packets don't reach the interface of the AP. >>>> >>>> However, I can see broadcast packets *from* the AP on my client, but not the >>>> other way round (DHCP requests from client to AP). To make sure the bug was >>>> not specific to broadcast packets, I manually set an IP on my client and tried >>>> to ping the AP, but those packets didn't come through, either. >> >> [...] >> >>> I checked vanilla 2.6.36, the bug is still there. Is this a known bug? Does >>> anyone care to give me some hints? Are any details needed? >> >> Please try to create a monitor interface on the rt73usb AP after setting it up: >> >> # iw dev wlan0 interface add mon0 type monitor >> >> and run a tcpdump on that (with XX:...:XX replaced by the MAC address of >> your client): >> >> # tcpdump -i mon0 "ether src XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX" >> >> Do you see any frames from your specific client? >> >> Helmut > > Yes. I can see this: > # tcpdump -i mon0 "ether host 00:1F:3B:79:41:6F" > 10:09:31.193127 1.0 Mb/s 2462 MHz 11b -76dB signal antenna 1 [bit 14] Probe Request () [1.0 2.0 5.5 11.0 6.0 9.0 12.0 18.0 Mbit][|802.11] <..snip..> > However, on wlan0 I don't see anything beyond the EAPOL packets. > Temporarily turning off WPA encryption let me successfully connect to my AP. And if you enable WPA, but disable Hardware encryption? (module parameter hw_crypto=0). Ivo