debugging 802.11s

[Andrey Yurovsky]

Hi Keir, no problem.  So just to be clear:
1) does mesh work for you?
2) what git commit are you using?

Thanks!

  -Andrey

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 8:25 AM, Keir <keirlawson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Apologies, I've made a fool of myself, my firewall was blocking the pings
> all along :-P *embarrassed*
>
> Sorry for waisting your time
>
> Keir
>
> 2008/11/12 Keir <keirlawson at gmail.com>
>>
>> Still no luck, still getting the sendmsg permission denied error on one
>> box, the other box ping is just timing out.  How does o11s play with 11g or
>> b networks? could that be the problem?  arp shows that it's managed to map
>> IPs to MACs correctly, when I do a station dump both stations now have plink
>> status of ESTAB.  I'm going to start sticking printks about the mesh code,
>> unless there is something more useful I can do?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Keir
>>
>> 2008/11/11 Andrey Yurovsky <andrey at cozybit.com>
>>>
>>> d059b2aed9e93cb94364e01374bca90ce3dc0ef9 should work and I would
>>> suspect that it's broken some time after.  Can you try that one?
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Keir <keirlawson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Erm, if I knew what git-bisect was ;-) (still havent got git fully
>>> > worked
>>> > out) what commit would you recommend I try?
>>> >
>>> > Cheers
>>> >
>>> > Keir
>>> >
>>> > 2008/11/11 Andrey Yurovsky <andrey at cozybit.com>
>>> >>
>>> >> Hi Keir.  I just rebuilt the latest wireless-testing and ath5k isn't
>>> >> working for me either (in fact I don't even see beacons on the air).
>>> >> Perhaps a recent regression?  Do you have time to git-bisect this or
>>> >> at least try an earlier commit?  Thanks,
>>> >>
>>> >>  -Andrey
>>> >>
>>> >> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Keir <keirlawson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >> > I also spotted this in dmesg:
>>> >> >
>>> >> > [ 3603.303963] ath5k phy0: beacon queue 7 didn't stop?
>>> >> > [ 3605.761677] ath5k phy0: beacon queue 7 didn't stop?
>>> >> > [ 3656.554337] ath5k phy0: beacon queue 7 didn't stop?
>>> >> > [ 3657.280923] Inbound IN=eth1 OUT=
>>> >> > MAC=00:90:27:43:08:2a:00:10:b5:e8:04:d3:08:00 SRC=192.168.0.251
>>> >> > DST=192.168.0.1 LEN=328 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP
>>> >> > SPT=68
>>> >> > DPT=67 LEN=308
>>> >> > [ 3763.209246] Unknown OutputIN= OUT=mesh0 SRC=10.0.0.1 DST=10.0.0.2
>>> >> > LEN=84
>>> >> > TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=ICMP TYPE=8 CODE=0 ID=44569
>>> >> > SEQ=1
>>> >> > [ 3764.218103] Unknown OutputIN= OUT=mesh0 SRC=10.0.0.1 DST=10.0.0.2
>>> >> > LEN=84
>>> >> > TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=ICMP TYPE=8 CODE=0 ID=44569
>>> >> > SEQ=2
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Just after attempting to ping from one to the other.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Keir
>>> >> >
>>> >> > 2008/11/11 Keir <keirlawson at gmail.com>
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >>> Hi Keir.  With NetworkManager not running, can you try things
>>> >> >>> again
>>> >> >>> from the top?
>>> >> >>>
>>> >> >>> 1) reload the driver
>>> >> >>> # modprobe -r ath5k
>>> >> >>> # modprobe ath5k
>>> >> >>>
>>> >> >>> 2) bring up your mesh interfaces, ex:
>>> >> >>> # iw dev wlan0 interface add mesh0 type mp mesh_id mymesh
>>> >> >>> # ifconfig mesh0 up
>>> >> >>> # ifconfig mesh0 10.0.0.1
>>> >> >>> (etc)
>>> >> >>>
>>> >> >>> ...and then ping again?
>>> >> >>> # ping -c 2 -I mesh0 10.0.0.2
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> I get the same error as before :-(
>>> >> >>>
>>> >> >>> Also, what's the git tag for your kernel (see Luis' instructions
>>> >> >>> on
>>> >> >>> how to obtain this via git-describe).  Thanks,
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> keir at dave:~/Desktop/Code/wireless-testing$ git describe
>>> >> >> v2.6.28-rc2-4151-g43288a0
>>> >> >> keir at dave:~/Desktop/Code/wireless-testing$ git tag -l| grep master
>>> >> >> |
>>> >> >> tail
>>> >> >> -1
>>> >> >> master-2008-10-27
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> station dump looks like:
>>> >> >> root at dave:/home/keir/Desktop/Code/iw-0.9.6# ./iw dev mesh0 station
>>> >> >> dump
>>> >> >> Station 00:18:4d:7a:51:70 (on mesh0)
>>> >> >>     inactive time:    320 ms
>>> >> >>     rx bytes:    27301
>>> >> >>     tx bytes:    13844
>>> >> >>     mesh llid:    1378
>>> >> >>     mesh plid:    30482
>>> >> >>     mesh plink:    HOLDING
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> Any ideas?
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> Cheers
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> Keir
>>> >> >
>>> >
>>> >
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