Am Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:43:04 -0800 schrieb Adrian Chadd <[email protected]>:
> There was someone who posted on -wireless a while ago about how to > "correctly" program different mac addresses for different VAPs. The > whole setup path is a little un-intuitive and needs some love. > > So take a look over the -wireless archives for multi-VAP and separate > mac addresses. :-) > > Aha. It's actually having the LSB set in the first octet. Not the MSB. > > So 0x80 is fine. 0x90 is fine. 0x09 is not. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast_address > > The hardware treats that address as special, so don't ever configure a > MAC with that multicast bit set. Or things won't work out well. > > > > Adrian When I understand you correctly, this only explains why 0x0d does not work. It still does not explain why 0x00 and 0xd0 do not work. I also wrote that the lowest bit needs to be "0" in my first PR (duh! it has been too long ago!). [1] As I said, everything was OK on FreeBSD 7.x and broke somewhere in 8.1-RELEASE. Please also notice that the problem affects ath(4) on the driver layer (I suppose) not generally on IEEE 802.11 layer, because I also tested with rum(4) and I could use it properly. [1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-July/058059.html -- Martin _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
