Re: [regression]AP with hostapd 0.7.3 can't receive packets beyond authentication (2.6.36, rt73usb)

[Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>]

Am Mittwoch 03 November 2010 schrieb Johannes Stezenbach:
> On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 03:51:52PM +0100, Ivo Van Doorn wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 01:50:07PM +0100, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> > >>
> > >> While reading through the code I noticed the following in rt2800_config_intf():
> > >>
> > >>               rt2x00_set_field32(&reg, MAC_BSSID_DW1_BSS_ID_MASK, 3);
> > >>
> > >> However, in Ralink source from http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2
> > >> in DPO_RT3370_LinuxSTA_V2.4.0.1_20100831/include/chip/rtmp_mac.h it says:
> > >>                 USHORT          BssIdMask:2; // 0: one BSSID, 10: 4 BSSID,  01: 2 BSSID , 11: 8BSSID
> > >>
> > >> This is different from rt73usb where 3 means "one BSSID".
> > >
> > > Any comments on this?
> > 
> > Well RT3370 isn't rt73 ;)
> > Instead (altough I don't know this exact chipset), I suspect it to be
> > of the rt2800 family.
> 
> OK, seems hat I wrote was confusing.
> 
> rt73usb sets the field to 3 (meaning "one BSSID").
> 
> But rt2800usb also sets it to 3, but it should be 0 (in rt2800_config_intf).

I would be fine with setting this to 0 but only in STA and IBSS mode. At
least in AP mode we want to keep the max value to be able to use multiple
AP mode interfaces.

Helmut