HostAP bugs

Gunter Burchardt gbur
Wed Jan 21 02:27:55 PST 2004


> handle_ap_item - addr1(DA)=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff not own MAC
> 
> Whis is sometimes repeated many times in a short period, and other times
> 
> 	This problem is increasing in frequency and sometimes the mac 
> address is different. 

This is not a problem. Your AP gut a managment frame with is not for
the AP. Thats all.


> 	In conjunction with this, there is an occasional 
> problem which I think is related where hostap will disassociate all 
> clients and not allow any new reassociations, for no obvious  reason or 
> cause. When this happens, the AP is still running and I can ssh in and 
> have a look around, and the second AP in the box is still going (the 
> second pcmcia card still has clients and is still working), there just 
> areen't any clients associated any more on the first AP. I have to reboot 
> the box at that point and then everything is fine again. This happened on 
> an AP with 33 clients and all the syslogging I do doesn't reveal anything 
> obvious, no flood of kernel messages, no nothing... just all of a sudden, where there 
> were 33 clients there are zero. 

I have the same problem with the hostapd. It seams that the hostapd got
a SIGKILL. But i don't know why. Not enough memory is not the problem.

Did you use the hostap deamon (hostapd) or only the kernel-module?

regards
gunter




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