I have an ath9k pci card [1] in a router/AP system that's been doing great
as just an AP and wired router for many months now. Today, I decided to
see if Mesh Point was still working in Compat Wireless. After bringing
down the AP (I thought, never hit enter), I did:
# iw phy phy0 interface add mp0 type mp mesh_id FooBarMesh
# macchanger -e mp0
# ifconfig mp0 10.0.2.1/24 up
Then in my laptop (has a mini-pci ath9k card [2]) I did:
# iw phy phy0 interface add mp0 type mp mesh_id FooBarMesh
# macchanger -e mp0
# ifconfig mp0 10.0.2.2/24 up
# ping -f -I mp0 10.0.2.1
which took a few seconds to start getting responses, worked well, but had
some packet loss [3] which I decided to inspect. I went back to the
router
system and did an 'ifconfig' only to see I still had the access point
interface up (and my ps3 associated to it, and working) [4].
Just wanted to report this success. Any further multiple vif tests that
are of interest to people?
Pat Erley
[1] Belkin PCI N1 Wireless Desktop Card
[Atheros AR5416 MAC/BB Rev:2 AR2133 RF Rev:81]
[2] COMPEX IWAVEPORT WLM200NX
[Atheros AR9280 MAC/BB Rev:2 AR5133 RF Rev:d0]
[3] Ping Output
# ping 10.0.2.1 -I mp0 -f
PING 10.0.2.1 (10.0.2.1) from 10.0.2.2 mp0: 56(84) bytes of data.
.........................<snip>......................^C
--- 10.0.2.1 ping statistics ---
1048 packets transmitted, 822 received, 21% packet loss, time 5232ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.911/2.279/12.451/1.432 ms, pipe 2, ipg/ewma
4.997/2.753 ms
[4] abridged Ifconfig output
mon.wlan0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr
00-11-50-F6-C1-F0-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6222 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:859328 (839.1 KiB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
mp0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:50:fc:3a:18
inet addr:10.0.2.1 Bcast:10.0.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::211:50ff:fefc:3a18/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6146 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8061 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:575052 (561.5 KiB) TX bytes:1005758 (982.1 KiB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:50:f6:c1:f0
inet addr:10.0.1.200 Bcast:10.0.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::211:50ff:fef6:c1f0/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:104 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (782.3 KiB) TX bytes:43650 (42.6 KiB)
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