Latest snapsot wireless bridged as well as static not working

wallabybob

DHCP works fine on my atheros NIC.

Here's the kernel I'm running

uname -a

FreeBSD pfsense.example.org 7.1-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p4 #0: Mon Apr 13 15:59:41 EDT 2009 sullrich@RELENG_1_2-snapshots.pfsense.org:/usr/obj.pfSense/usr/pfSensesrc/src/sys/pfSense.7 i386

Here's how my interface is reported in the startup:

dmesg | grep ath

ath0: <atheros 5212="">mem 0xee000000-0xee00ffff irq 12 at device 8.0 on pci0
ath0: [ITHREAD]
ath0: WARNING: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
ath0: Ethernet address: 00:19:e0:xx:xx:xx
ath0: mac 7.9 phy 4.5 radio 5.6</atheros>

Your atheros is a more recent revision than mine?

xbipin

i go the below atheros card working with the march release but not the latest one

$ dmesg | grep ath
ath0: <atheros 5413="">mem 0xe00c0000-0xe00cffff irq 9 at device 12.0 on pci0
ath0: [ITHREAD]
ath0: WARNING: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
ath0: Ethernet address: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
ath0: mac 10.5 phy 6.1 radio 6.3
ath0: promiscuous mode enabled</atheros>

xbipin

any1 tested the latest snapshots for wireless functionality?

covex

I've updated yesterday from original rc1 release to the May 12th one. release from May 14th wouldn't event boot on my Alix 0_o.
After update wireless (bridged to LAN) went down and my laptop was showing limited or no connectivity message.
I had to kill the wireless interface and assigned it again. That fixed it and it works OK.
oh, and I'm running alix with atheros 5212.

xbipin

the snapshot server was down till now and now that its up, i tried the 18th may 7.1 base, 7.2 base of freebsd and m having same issues, wireless not get IP from DHCP when bridged with LAN, the second issue i saw with both the bsd versions of 1.2.3 was in system log there was an error saying couldn't not get the MTU of ath0 so using 1500 but then it couldn't bridge with LAN due to that wireless not being able to set its MTU value so the next line it said the same but now for vr1 which is the LAN interface

matrix200 · Current network "hardware" : Running 2.2RC in Virtualbox 4.2.16.

I also have bridging issues with the original 1.2.3RC1 build.
In my case if I only set bridging in the wireless interface it doesn't work (I don't use dhcp though and assign static ip's).
However if I set the bridging from the lan interface too it starts working!
This is annoying but I suppose I can live with that.

AhnHEL

I was having that same MTU issue as xbipin, mtu to the bridge interface was not set at 1500 when i ran the ifconfig command.

Using the below commands fixed it for me on my Alix 2c2

ifconfig vr0 mtu 1500
ifconfig ath0 mtu 1500
ifconfig bridge0 destroy
ifconfig bridge create

xbipin

@matrix200:

I also have bridging issues with the original 1.2.3RC1 build.
In my case if I only set bridging in the wireless interface it doesn't work (I don't use dhcp though and assign static ip's).
However if I set the bridging from the lan interface too it starts working!
This is annoying but I suppose I can live with that.

do u mean to say LAN bridged to WAN works but wireless bridged to LAN doesnt?

matrix200 · Current network "hardware" : Running 2.2RC in Virtualbox 4.2.16.

No,

What I am saying , it matters in which interface I set the bridging.
If I set the bridging in wireless interface (ath0 to lan) it doesn't work.
If I go to lan's interface and set there to bridget to ath0 then it works.
The thing is , this setting is not retained after reboot and I have to repeat this procedure everytime I want to reboot.
I also get the error message about wrong mtu when bridging but strangely enough the bridge works fine afterwards.

xbipin

i tried the following release
1.2.3-RC1
built on Sat May 23 03:47:37 EDT 2009

and still sad coz wireless bridged to LAN and wireless clients dont get ip address from DHCP running on LAN interface

DeCex

All works fine here;

OPT1 bridge to LAN

2 PC with with wireless connection
1 Wii gameconsole (wireless client)

If you goto the Status\Interface and look at the OPT1 option. What does it say? "associated" ?. I think i had this issue onces long ago and rememberd it was somethin to do with the OPT1 channel setting. Since im on WAG311T wifi card (Netgear) i hae channel 6 set (Turbo) and have no probelm at all.

xbipin

i guess its not a wireless issue but its a bridge issue and dhcp isnt able to give out ip to wireless clients

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DeCex

Here´my firewall rules

1 for LAN
1 for OPT1

LAN.png_thumb

OPT1.png_thumb

xbipin

its the same rules i got, mayb if u read in older posts ull see that all the debug has been done and config is all perfect and firewall is also not blocking any dhcp packets but its just that dhcp isnt replying properly or something like that

matrix200 · Current network "hardware" : Running 2.2RC in Virtualbox 4.2.16.

I think it is not a firewall issue at all because in my setup I don't have dhcp and just have my laptop with an ip in my lan subnet and unless I do the bridging from lan to wifi interface , I simply can't access it (ping , telnet etc).
Sounds like bridging/routing issue to me.

jimp

I would probably also help to see the output of "ifconfig -a" and also a copy of the rules for the wireless interface for both those who say it works, and those who say it doesn't.

Perhaps there is some telling difference between the two.

xbipin

doesnt work for me now doesnt even with static ips on wireless bridged to lan

$ ifconfig -a
vr0: flags=8943 <up,broadcast,running,promisc,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
	options=2809 <rxcsum,vlan_mtu,wol_ucast,wol_magic>ether 00:0d:b9:13:47:84
	inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
	inet6 fe80::20d:b9ff:fe13:4784%vr0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 
	media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
	status: active
vr1: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
	options=280b <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,wol_ucast,wol_magic>ether 00:0d:b9:13:47:85
	inet6 fe80::20d:b9ff:fe13:4785%vr1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 
	media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
	status: active
vr2: flags=8802 <broadcast,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
	options=280b <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,wol_ucast,wol_magic>ether 00:0d:b9:13:47:86
	media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
	status: no carrier
ath0: flags=8943 <up,broadcast,running,promisc,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 2290
	ether 00:0b:6b:2c:d4:61
	inet6 fe80::20b:6bff:fe2c:d461%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 
	media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <hostap>status: associated
	ssid "1mbps Blazing" channel 11 (2462 Mhz 11g) bssid 00:0b:6b:2c:d4:61
	authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy MIXED deftxkey 2 TKIP 2:128-bit
	txpower 31.5 scanvalid 60 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250
	roam:rssi11g 7 roam:rate11g 5 pureg protmode RTSCTS burst dtimperiod 1
pfsync0: flags=41 <up,running>metric 0 mtu 1460
	pfsync: syncdev: lo0 syncpeer: 224.0.0.240 maxupd: 128
enc0: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 1536
lo0: flags=8049 <up,loopback,running,multicast>metric 0 mtu 16384
	inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 
	inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 
	inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x7 
pflog0: flags=100 <promisc>metric 0 mtu 33204
ng0: flags=88d1 <up,pointopoint,running,noarp,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1492
	inet6 fe80::20d:b9ff:fe13:4784%ng0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x9 
	inet 92.99.242.71 --> 195.229.252.44 netmask 0xffffffff 
bridge0: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
	ether aa:44:2b:7b:c5:65
	id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15
	maxage 20 holdcnt 6 proto rstp maxaddr 100 timeout 1200
	root id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 ifcost 0 port 0
	member: vr0 flags=143 <learning,discover,autoedge,autoptp>ifmaxaddr 0 port 1 priority 128 path cost 200000
	member: ath0 flags=143 <learning,discover,autoedge,autoptp>ifmaxaddr 0 port 4 priority 128 path cost 370370</learning,discover,autoedge,autoptp></learning,discover,autoedge,autoptp></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast></up,pointopoint,running,noarp,simplex,multicast></promisc></up,loopback,running,multicast></up,running></hostap></up,broadcast,running,promisc,simplex,multicast></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,wol_ucast,wol_magic></broadcast,simplex,multicast></full-duplex></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,wol_ucast,wol_magic></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast></full-duplex></rxcsum,vlan_mtu,wol_ucast,wol_magic></up,broadcast,running,promisc,simplex,multicast>

AhnHEL

MTU on ath0 is 2290

Is this proper?

Ran the following commands in console to set all interfaces to 1500 mtu including bridge0 and thats how it started to work again for me.

ifconfig vr0 mtu 1500
ifconfig ath0 mtu 1500
ifconfig bridge0 destroy
ifconfig bridge create

Change the vr0 above with your interface name for LAN

$ ifconfig
vr0: flags=8943 <up,broadcast,running,promisc,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
options=2809 <rxcsum,vlan_mtu,wol_ucast,wol_magic>ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
inet xxx.xxx.xxx.x netmask 0xfffffff0 broadcast xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
inet6 xxxx::xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx%vr0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
status: active
vr1: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
options=284b <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,polling,wol_ucast,wol_magic>ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
inet6 xxxx::xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx%vr1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 0xfffff000 broadcast 255.255.255.255
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
status: active
ath0: flags=8943 <up,broadcast,running,promisc,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
inet6 xxxx::xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <hostap>status: associated
ssid Taino1 channel 11 (2462 Mhz 11g) bssid xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
authmode WPA1+WPA2/802.11i privacy MIXED deftxkey 3 TKIP 2:128-bit
TKIP 3:128-bit txpower 31.5 scanvalid 60 bgscan bgscanintvl 300
bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi11g 7 roam:rate11g 5 protmode OFF burst
-apbridge dtimperiod 1
pfsync0: flags=41 <up,running>metric 0 mtu 1460
pfsync: syncdev: lo0 syncpeer: 224.0.0.240 maxupd: 128
enc0: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 1536
lo0: flags=8049 <up,loopback,running,multicast>metric 0 mtu 16384
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6
pflog0: flags=100 <promisc>metric 0 mtu 33204
tun0: flags=8051 <up,pointopoint,running,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
inet6 xxxx::xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx%tun0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x9
inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx –> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 0xffffffff
Opened by PID 446
tun1: flags=8051 <up,pointopoint,running,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
inet6 xxxx::xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx%tun1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xa
inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx --> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 0xffffffff
Opened by PID 453
bridge0: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15
maxage 20 holdcnt 6 proto rstp maxaddr 100 timeout 1200
root id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 ifcost 0 port 0
member: vr0 flags=143 <learning,discover,autoedge,autoptp>ifmaxaddr 0 port 1 priority 128 path cost 200000
member: ath0 flags=143 <learning,discover,autoedge,autoptp>ifmaxaddr 0 port 3 priority 128 path cost 370370</learning,discover,autoedge,autoptp></learning,discover,autoedge,autoptp></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast></up,pointopoint,running,multicast></up,pointopoint,running,multicast></promisc></up,loopback,running,multicast></up,running></hostap></up,broadcast,running,promisc,simplex,multicast></full-duplex></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,polling,wol_ucast,wol_magic></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast></full-duplex></rxcsum,vlan_mtu,wol_ucast,wol_magic></up,broadcast,running,promisc,simplex,multicast>

covex

updated to the recent snapshot and the same thing again. dhcp wont work on the wireless. alix, atheros 5212, full install.
ifconfig shows mtu of 2290 on ath0 and on bridge0
also, after upgrade I'm getting error message invalid parameter while loading firewall rules 2 and 3.
Here are those rules from config file (nothing was changed, this is how they are in config file):
<rule><type>pass</type>
<interface>optXXXX</interface>
<max-src-nodes><max-src-states><statetimeout><statetype>keep state</statetype>
<os><source>
<any><destination><any></any></destination></any></os></statetimeout></max-src-states></max-src-nodes></rule>
<rule><type>pass</type>
<interface>opt2</interface>
<max-src-nodes><max-src-states><statetimeout><statetype>keep state</statetype>
<os><source>
<any><destination><any></any></destination></any></os></statetimeout></max-src-states></max-src-nodes></rule>
what these rules do? opt2 is my wireless.

AhnHEL

Did you run the ifconfig commands i listed above to see if that resolves your wireless problem?

I'd reboot my Alix box and try again myself to see if the commands consistently resolve the issue but my Alix box is remote to my location and I cant afford the downtime if the commands dont help.