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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>So, following this up, I tried to run hostapd using the wired driver and interface=lo so that it listens on local host and I get the following error : <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText>root@mr1:/#hostapd -dd /etc/hostapd.wired.conf.local<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Configuration file: /etc/hostapd.wired.conf.local<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Opening raw packet socket for ifindex 1<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b>Invalid HW-addr family 0x0304<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText>wired driver initialization failed.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>ELOOP: remaining socket: sock=3 eloop_data=0x86c3e60 user_data=(nil) handler=0x8074930 <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Does anyone know where can I find more information about the “</span>Invalid HW-addr family 0x0304” <span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>error and how can I solve that? Jouni any ideas?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I also tried to use interface=eth0 and then bridge the local host (lo) interface with eth0 using bridge-utils but that failed as well. I could not add “lo” to a bridge unfortunately…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Any ideas would be much appreciated,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks a lot,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Panos<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> hostap-bounces@lists.shmoo.com [mailto:hostap-bounces@lists.shmoo.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Panagiotis Georgopoulos<br><b>Sent:</b> 07 April 2011 14:40<br><b>To:</b> 'thirumalai Ath'<br><b>Cc:</b> hostap@lists.shmoo.com<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: Running wpa_supplicant and hostapd on the same machine<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>You are very right; that’s one of the things I thought might be problematic. Do you have any recommendations on this?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I was thinking of using wired driver and also ap_scan=0, scan_ssid=0 and </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> eapol_flags=0 </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>on wpa_supplicant to do that, and instead of doing interface=eth0 to do interface=lo. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I guess there is only one way to see if that works… to try it out!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Panos<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> thirumalai Ath [mailto:thirumalai.wlan@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> 06 April 2011 12:54<br><b>To:</b> Panagiotis Georgopoulos<br><b>Cc:</b> hostap@lists.shmoo.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: Running wpa_supplicant and hostapd on the same machine<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>I think your wifi driver need to support for this.<br>-Thirumalai<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:34 AM, Panagiotis Georgopoulos <<a href="mailto:panos@comp.lancs.ac.uk">panos@comp.lancs.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>Hello all,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US> Here is a bit of a crazy idea; has anyone run wpa_supplicant and hostapd on the same machine?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US> What I want to do, is be able to authenticate a machine with a backend AAA server and send its accounting information there, over for example an Ethernet connection or 3G on that same box (and not an Access point one hop away). So I was thinking of configuring and running both wpa_supplicant and hostapd to use the lo (local host interface) to communicate with each other for the pass over of credentials and the encapsulation of EAP packets to AAA IP packets, and configure hostapd (with the wired.conf configuration) to talk to a backend AAA server. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US> Would that be possible and how? </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-indent:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>I realize that this is a very simplistic way to put this and overkill for wpa_supplicant and hostapd, but does anyone have a better alternative?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US> Thanks a lot in advance,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US> Panos</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>_______________________________________________<br>HostAP mailing list<br><a href="mailto:HostAP@lists.shmoo.com">HostAP@lists.shmoo.com</a><br><a href="http://lists.shmoo.com/mailman/listinfo/hostap" target="_blank">http://lists.shmoo.com/mailman/listinfo/hostap</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>