Re: [Madwifi-users] DHCP offers not coming back to interface?

[Greg C. <ma...@at...>]

Do you know that the driver is associated with your AP?
Did you do "iwconfig ath0 essid <name of AP>"?

If not, the NIC will discard broadcast responses (e.g. dhcp offer) from 
that AP.

g


Thomas Gagné wrote:
> It's odd.
> 
> After "ifconfig ath0 up" I can connect ethereal to the interface to 
> watch what happens.
> 
> "ifup ath0" starts sending-out DHCP requests, and the DHCP server 
> responds to my MAC address (I'm tracing its logs) but the OFFER never 
> comes back to my interface, or isn't interpreted, or something.  I've 
> seen this behavior now with two APs, a NetGear and a D-Link DWL 7100 
> AP.  So I'm assuming my WEP encryption is working, otherwise ethereal 
> wouldn't be able to see the traffic.  I can see other computers 
> broadcast pings on ath0, I can "ping -b 192.168.1.255 -I ath0" and see 
> the broadcasts, but I never get responses back.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 
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