dhcpd on wlan0 in master mode

[snai8255 at mail.usyd.edu.au]

hi all;

thanks for your comments.this may sound silly but "ifconfig wlan0 dynamic up" fixed the problem.
previously i was doing "ifconfig wlan0 up".

thnx again all

Quoting Jouni Malinen <jkmaline at cc.hut.fi>:

> On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 02:06:02PM +1000, snai8255 at mail.usyd.edu.au wrote:
>
> > however i see no response from the dhcp server going back to the sta.the server works fine with
> > eth0.also "dhclient wlan0" works fine with other access points(not hostap)
>
> Which DHCP server are you using? How is it configured? Is the AP using
> bridging between wlan0 and eth0 or are you using IP routing? Can you see
> te DHCP request from the client on the AP with a sniffer (e.g., tcpdump
> on wlan0)? What about reply form the DHCP server? Does the DHCP server
> log the request in syslog/debug log?
>
> > not sure if this is an issue with the dhcp server or hostap in master mode?though i feel its
> got to
> > do with hostap in master mode.
>
> Maybe not that surprising, but I feel it's got more to do with the DHCP
> server configuration than Host AP driver.. ;-)
>
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