'ping' hostap

Aditya S Chikodi adityasc
Tue Apr 22 01:43:21 PDT 2003


Bring down the eth0 interface on ur AP. The problem is with the route
entries which can be checked with the command - netstat -rn. U should have 2
route entries for the same subnet. Thus on receiving a ICMP ping request
from ur client, the AP tends to put the response on eth0 [which I figure is
the first entry inthe routing table]and hence the problem

Regards
Aditya

> -----Original Message-----
> From: hostap-admin at shmoo.com [mailto:hostap-admin at shmoo.com]On Behalf Of
> Jarmie Espuerta
> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 2:02 PM
> To: hostap at shmoo.com
> Subject: 'ping' hostap
>
>
> helo,
>
> after a lot of struggle i have partly got my Zcomax Xl-325H card work as
> an access point. apparent there has been some minor problems which i
> could not understand and figure out.  I am using the latest driver
> hostap-0.0.1 under the kernel version 2.4.20 running on RedHat 7.3...
> here's what i did to check if my card and the hostap pc based is working.
>
> bash# ifconfig wlan0 192.168.41.1
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:04:76:72:82:51
>           inet addr:10.10.6.33  Bcast:10.10.6.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:14990 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:270 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
>           RX bytes:7027835 (6.7 Mb)  TX bytes:19893 (19.4 Kb)
>           Interrupt:5 Base address:0xa000
>
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>           RX packets:36 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:36 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>           RX bytes:3360 (3.2 Kb)  TX bytes:3360 (3.2 Kb)
>
> wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:60:B3:76:9E:8A
>           inet addr:192.168.41.1  Bcast:192.168.41.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:23 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:40 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
>           RX bytes:688 (688.0 b)  TX bytes:3384 (3.3 Kb)
>           Interrupt:12 Base address:0x100
>
> bash # iwconfig
> lo        no wireless extensions.
>
> eth0      no wireless extensions.
>
> 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
>           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
>           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>           Tx excessive retries:34  Invalid misc:7305   Missed beacon:0
>
> 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
>
> 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
>           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
>           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
> Managed? when in fact my Managed has the address of the access point?
> thank you very much for all the suggestions and solutions that i can have.
>
> regards,
> jarmie
>
>
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