'ping' hostap
Aditya S Chikodi
adityasc at tataelxsi.co.in
Tue Apr 22 04:43:21 EDT 2003
Bring down the eth0 interface on ur AP. The problem is with the route
entries which can be checked with the command - netstat -rn. U should have 2
route entries for the same subnet. Thus on receiving a ICMP ping request
from ur client, the AP tends to put the response on eth0 [which I figure is
the first entry inthe routing table]and hence the problem
Regards
Aditya
> -----Original Message-----
> From: hostap-admin at shmoo.com [mailto:hostap-admin at shmoo.com]On Behalf Of
> Jarmie Espuerta
> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 2:02 PM
> To: hostap at shmoo.com
> Subject: 'ping' hostap
>
>
> helo,
>
> after a lot of struggle i have partly got my Zcomax Xl-325H card work as
> an access point. apparent there has been some minor problems which i
> could not understand and figure out. I am using the latest driver
> hostap-0.0.1 under the kernel version 2.4.20 running on RedHat 7.3...
> here's what i did to check if my card and the hostap pc based is working.
>
> bash# ifconfig wlan0 192.168.41.1
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:76:72:82:51
> inet addr:10.10.6.33 Bcast:10.10.6.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:14990 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:270 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> RX bytes:7027835 (6.7 Mb) TX bytes:19893 (19.4 Kb)
> Interrupt:5 Base address:0xa000
>
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
> RX packets:36 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:36 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:3360 (3.2 Kb) TX bytes:3360 (3.2 Kb)
>
> wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:B3:76:9E:8A
> inet addr:192.168.41.1 Bcast:192.168.41.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:23 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:40 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> RX bytes:688 (688.0 b) TX bytes:3384 (3.3 Kb)
> Interrupt:12 Base address:0x100
>
> bash # iwconfig
> lo no wireless extensions.
>
> eth0 no wireless extensions.
>
> wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"dmr"
> Mode:Master Frequency:2.422GHz Access Point: 00:60:B3:76:9E:8A
> Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power:-4 dBm Sensitivity=1/3
> Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
> Encryption key:off
> Power Management:off
> Link Quality:0/92 Signal level:-69 dBm Noise level:-90 dBm
> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
> Tx excessive retries:34 Invalid misc:7305 Missed beacon:0
>
> with this, i wanted to test my hostap if it really is working.. so i set
> up a client having an IP address of 192.168.41.2, yet it could 'ping' my
> Ip address which is 192.168.41.1... but when i check the 'iwconfig' of
> my client... here's the result
>
> bash# iwconfig
> wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"dmr"
> Mode:Managed Frequency:2.422GHz Access Point:
> 00:60:B3:76:9E:8A
> Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power:-4 dBm Sensitivity=1/3
> Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
> Encryption key:off
> Power Management:off
> Link Quality:0/92 Signal level:-69 dBm Noise level:-90 dBm
> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
> Tx excessive retries:34 Invalid misc:7305 Missed beacon:0
>
> it has my mac address!! how come it cannot 'ping' the Master and the
> Managed? when in fact my Managed has the address of the access point?
> thank you very much for all the suggestions and solutions that i can have.
>
> regards,
> jarmie
>
>
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