Re: Whether Batman-adv need suitable wifi network card (support interface modes ( mesh point ) ) .

[johnzeng <johnzeng2013@yahoo.com>]

Dear Sven :

                     Thanks , and i will try to purchase suitable wifi 
hardware ,

                      Because i use raspberry 
<http://www.baidu.com/link?url=s_ofbUc1ZEO-1ohz5A3WnLdqY4CNZ948d7JxBMkwZtW_fjTcOKUwMjkloBUHVW475SCTMxAci7HoEvHeH80Fuz9lC1X4W6Hw4BvwQaUIDzq> 
pi  , i have to use wifi card based usb .

                      whether you can advise a set of usb wifi card 
based Atheros ( driver ath9k) ?



                       Best Regards

                       Tiger



> On Mittwoch, 26. Oktober 2016 15:19:02 CEST johnzeng wrote:
> [...]
>> HostB wlan0 : mac addr : ether 00:1d:43:10:15:44
>>
>> HostA wlan0 : mac addr: ether c8:3a:35:c9:ce:71
> [...]
>> i run the command at Host A ( Rt2070 ) at ( ping HostA from HostB)
>> iw dev wlan0 station dump:
>> Station 00:1d:43:10:15:44 (on wlan0)
> [...]
>
> Here we see that host A noticed that there is a different device and
> "connected" to it (actually, it just added it as remote station to its
> internal list).
>
> This is a good sign - at least when both devices have each other in
> their respective station lists (*spoiler* they don't).
>
>> [root@alarmpi ~]# tcpdump -i bat0
>>
>> 07:01:40.635517 ARP, Reply 0.0.0.0 is-at 43:05:43:05:00:00 (oui
>> Unknown), length 28
>> 07:01:50.655521 ARP, Reply 0.0.0.0 is-at 43:05:43:05:00:00 (oui
>> Unknown), length 28
>>
>> [root@alarmpi ~]# tcpdump -i wlan0
>> tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
>> listening on wlan0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 262144 bytes
>> 07:02:35.815528 c8:3a:35:c9:ce:71 (oui Unknown) > Broadcast, ethertype
>> Unknown (0x4305), length 66:
> [...]
>
> Here we see an OGM that is transmitted from this device. So for some reason
> we don't see the an incoming OGM from host B. Either host B is not really
> transmitting it, host A is not receiving it or you just didn't capture long
> enough.
>
> [...]
>> and i run same command at Host B ( RTL8188CUS ) at ( ping HostB from HostA)
>>
>> iw dev wlan0 station dump:
>>
>> " is blank"
> This means that RTL8188CUS didn't detect a remote IBSS device. This is odd and
> at first glance looks to me like a bug in the RTL8188CUS driver. But I would
> recommend to get a third (known to work) device and check to which of the
> orignal two devices it can connect and which of the other two devices can
> connect to it.
>
> You could even use the third device to capture raw wifi frames on a monitor
> interface and check if both devices submit these OGMs and if both devices
> are beaconing (and reply to probe requests).
>
> But this is basically the main problem here.
> The rest of the reply is just to explain some additional things.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> [...]
>> tcpdump -i wlan0
>>
>> 06:57:11.425351 c8:3a:35:c9:ce:71 (oui Unknown) > Broadcast, ethertype
> [...]
>> 06:57:11.534759 00:1d:43:10:15:44 (oui Unknown) > Broadcast, ethertype
> [...]
>
> This part shows an OGM from host A and host B. So it can receive OGMs from
> other stations and batman-adv is at least trying to send some data. It is
> unknown here if the host B is not really sending it or if host A is not
> really receiving it.
>
> [...]
>> And i thought Rt2070 support Broadcast and RTL8188CUS don't support
>> Broadcast or send ...
>>
>> because when i ping ip (RTL8188CUS) from Rt2070 , and i can see ping
>> packet via (tcpdump -i bat0 ) and i can see Rt2070 mac addr via (tcpdump
>> -i wlan0 ) at HOSTB,
>>
>> but i ping ip (Rt2070) from RTL8188CUS and i can't see any ping packet
>> from RTL8188CUS and i can't see RTL8188CUS mac via (tcpdump -i wlan0 )
>> at HOSTA
> Both should have working broadcast to get the ARP stuff working for the ping.
> But of course this only a good test when each ping tests are done with clean
> ARP tables (Linux is sniffing packets to fill its own ARP table without always
> sending ARP request). There is a test which you could have done even without
> the `iw dev wlan0 station dump` info from above.
>
> This part now is without batman-adv (because the text from you is quite unclear):
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> But it could be that the ARP table on RTL8188CUS (Host B) was filled by the
> ARP request from Host A. And this was to only reason why the ping back from
> host B to host A worked.  You can test that by making sure that the ARP table
> is clean on both hosts and then start pinging from B to A. Also make some
> captures with tcpdump on both hosts that you later can analyze with wireshark.
> After your test (when it worked) make sure that the arp table on both hosts
> contain entries for each other. And than analyze the dumps for ARP packets in
> wireshark to make sure that host B really submitted and request and host A
> replied to it.
>
> Kind regards,
> 	Sven