I have set up my FreeBSD box as a gateway. It used to work fine but suddenly my hotspot keeps failing. It drops a few times a day. Restarting hostapd gets it back up again but I really want to keep it up. I am running FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE-p1 GENERIC amd64. My WiFi card is:
ath0@pci0:1:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x30a4168c chip=0x002e168c
rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Qualcomm Atheros'
device = 'AR9287 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)'
class = network
It is a HP running Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz on 2 quads
and 16GB of memory.
From my rc.conf:
# Internal wifi network
wlans_ath0=wlan0
create_args_wlan0="wlanmode hostap"
ifconfig_wlan0="inet 192.168.225.1 netmask 0xffffff00 ssid druid"
hostapd_enable=YES
DHCPD_INTERFACES="$DHCPD_INTERFACES wlan0"
If I can't keep it running can someone suggest a system test I can do to
decide that hostapd needs to be restarted?
One thing I found was lots of log entries like this:
ath0: stuck beacon; resetting (bmiss count 4)
From reading up on that it seems that it is just a cosmetic warning.
Could this be an indication of something that is killing the hotspot?
Thanks for any insight.
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