Link and question for WDS (in repeater mode)

[Ricardo Galli]

On Tuesday 17 December 2002 03:54, Jouni Malinen shaped the electrons to 
shout:
> If you don't want to have any station associating with wlan0, you could
> just configure it to use Repeater (i.e., WDS) mode, in which the card
> does not send beacons or reply to probe requests.

Thanks... but :-)


I am trying in repeater mode and couldn't realize how to solve the 
problem. First, when I used autom_ap_wds 1, neither the ap or the 
repeater "saw" each other.

So I added specified the mac manually in iwpriv wlan0 wds_add, and the 
link is shown in /proc/net/hostap/wlan0/wds in both computers (the 
example is the master):

ponti:~# cat /proc/net/hostap/wlan0/wds
wlan0wds0       00:05:5d:d6:4b:da

But, there is no link among them, the repeater station show no messages at 
all.

The master gives the following messages:

...
handle_ap_item - addr3(BSSID)=00:05:5d:d6:4b:da not own MAC
handle_ap_item - addr3(BSSID)=00:05:5d:d6:4b:da not own MAC
handle_ap_item - addr3(BSSID)=00:05:5d:d6:4b:da not own MAC
handle_ap_item - addr3(BSSID)=00:05:5d:d6:4b:da not own MAC
handle_ap_item - addr3(BSSID)=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff not own MAC
handle_ap_item - addr3(BSSID)=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff not own MAC
handle_ap_item - addr3(BSSID)=01:00:5e:00:00:01 not own MAC
handle_ap_item - addr3(BSSID)=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff not own MAC
handle_ap_item - addr3(BSSID)=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff not own MAC
handle_ap_item - addr3(BSSID)=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff not own MAC
handle_ap_item - addr3(BSSID)=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff not own MAC
handle_ap_item - addr3(BSSID)=01:00:5e:00:00:01 not own MAC
...

As you can see, 00:05:5d:d6:4b:da is the other end of the wds link, but 
01:00:5e:00:00:01 is unknown to me. I suppose ff:ff:ff are brodcasts from 
the repeater. 

The driver version is 2002-10-12, I tried all configuration options but 
couldn't find the reason of these messages.


Regards,

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  ricardo galli       GPG id C8114D34