Hello everyone, I asked a month ago for help but haven't received any feedback yet. Do I miss something? Is this the wrong address for my request? Thanks, Markus Am Freitag, 26. Juli 2024, 16:06:40 MESZ schrieb Markus: > Hello, > > I am running a hostapd with following setup: > > interface=wlan0 > bridge=br0 > driver=nl80211 > hw_mode=g > channel=5 > > ssid=xxx > auth_algs=1 > wnm_sleep_mode=1 > beacon_prot=1 > ieee80211w=1 > wmm_enabled=1 > #wmm_ac_* like in example > ap_isolate=1 > ieee80211n=1 > ht_capab=[HT40-][GF][SHORT-GI-20][SHORT-GI-40] > dynamic_vlan=1 > per_sta_vif=1 > wpa=2 > wpa_psk_file=/etc/hostapd/hostapd.wpa_psk > wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK > rsn_pairwise=CCMP > > In general it works. But I noticed that after two days multicast > communication fails for all stations. (mdns discovery stops working.) > At the time it fails I noticed in the hostapd log the rekey entries. The > default is a rekey every 24h. So I changed it to 5 minutes to check: > wpa_group_rekey=300 > > Now multicast failed after 10 minutes. (So the first rekey after 5 minutes > worked, but the second and any further rekey succeed according to log, but > multicast does not work.) > > (I could increase rekey interval or disable it all together, but I guess > thats not recommended. ;) ) > > Deauthenticating the clients with "hostapd_cli deauthenticate" sometimes > recovers multicast for up to 10 minutes. > Not sure why it does not recover everytime. > > > Hardware is a ALFA AWUS036ACHM with mediatek mt76. > Kernel is 6.6.37, linux-firmware from July. > Recently updated hostapd to latest git version. > All stations are affected, at the moment android devices and various smart > home devices from different brands. > > Any idea what the problem could be? > Is it a misconfiguration or some bug? > > Any help is highly appreciated. > > Thank you, > Markus > > > > _______________________________________________ > Hostap mailing list > Hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/hostap _______________________________________________ Hostap mailing list Hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/hostap
