'ping' hostap

[Ricardo Galli]

On Tuesday 22 April 2003 10:32, Jarmie Espuerta shaped the electrons to 
shout:
> 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
                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Put a reasonable value here, at _least_ if you cannot be sure it does 
work.

> 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

I don't understand what's your problem with "iwconfig"

>
> 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

It's ok, but the tx-power is too low, did you ever try to do a "iwconfig 
wlan0 txpower 100mW", for example?

>           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
                         ^^^^               ^^^^^^^
No link, possibly due to low tx-power?

>           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

What does it mean "my mac"? All the macs shown in your message are "yours" 
:-)

What's showing there is the mac of the AP, and it's OK.

> Managed? when in fact my Managed has the address of the access point?

What's showing there is the mac of the AP, and it's OK. Check what it 
says:

Access Point: 00:60:B3:76:9E:8A
^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Do you see the word "access point"?


> thank you very much for all the suggestions and solutions that i can

You need to read some literature about 802.11...



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