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Message-ID: <1468217682.5588.4.camel@synopsys.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 06:15:58 +0000
From: Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin@...opsys.com>
To: "russell@...sonaltelco.net" <russell@...sonaltelco.net>
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Subject: Re: [LEDE-DEV] DHCP via bridge in case of IPv4
Hi Russel,
On Sun, 2016-07-10 at 00:19 -0700, Russell Senior wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > "Alexey" == Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin@...opsys.com> writes:
> Alexey> Hi Aaron,
> Alexey> On Sat, 2016-07-09 at 07:47 -0400, Aaron Z wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 4:37 AM, Alexey Brodkin
> > > <Alexey.Brodkin@...opsys.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I was playing with quite simple bridged setup on different boards
> > > with > very recent kernels (4.6.3 as of this writing) and found one
> > > interesting > behavior that I cannot yet understand and googling
> > > din't help here as well.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > My setup is pretty simple: >
> > > ------------- ------------------ -------------------------
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > HOST | | "Dumb AP" | | Wireless
> > > client | > > with DHCP |<----->(eth0) (wlan0)<----->|
> > > attempting to | > > server | | \ br0
> > > / | | get settings via DHCP | >
> > > ------------- ------------------ -------------------------
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > * HOST is my laptop with DHCP server that works for sure. > *
> > > "Dumb AP" is a separate board (I tried ARM-based Wandboard and
> > > ARC-based > AXS10x boards but results are exactly the same) with
> > > wired (eth0) and wireless > (wlan0) network controllers bridged
> > > together (br0). That "br0" bridge flawlessly > gets its settings
> > > from DHCP server on host. > * Wireless client could be either a
> > > smatrphone or another laptop etc but > what's important it should
> > > be configured to get network settings by DHCP as well.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > So what happens "br0" always gets network settings from DHCP server
> > > on HOST. > That's fine. But wireless client only reliably gets
> > > settings from DHCP server > if IPv6 is enabled on "Dumb AP" board. If
> > > IPv6 is disabled I may see that > wireless client sends "DHCP
> > > Discover" then server replies with "DHCP Offer" but > that offer
> > > never reaches wireless client.
> > >
> > >
> > > Do you have WDS enabled? If not, DHCP has issues in that scenario:
> > > https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/clientmode
> If the Dumb AP's wireless interface is in ap-mode, then this shouldn't
> be an issue. It's only client-mode interfaces that have trouble with bridging.
>
> I'd suggest running tcpdump on the Dumb AP's wireless interface and the
> client's wireless interface and see which of them sees the various parts
> of the DHCP handshake.
So I did but for DHCP server and wireless client (had no tcpdump on Dump AP
at the moment).
That's what I see on the server:
----------------------------->8-------------------------------
No. Time Source Destination Protocol Length Info
3 0.151181000 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 DHCP 342 DHCP Discover - Transaction ID 0x31dc321f
11 2.760796000 10.42.0.1 10.42.0.13 DHCP 342 DHCP Offer - Transaction ID 0x31dc321f
14 5.220985000 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 DHCP 342 DHCP Discover - Transaction ID 0x31dc321f
15 5.221150000 10.42.0.1 10.42.0.13 DHCP 342 DHCP Offer - Transaction ID 0x31dc321f
23 15.649835000 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 DHCP 342 DHCP Discover - Transaction ID 0x31dc321f
24 15.650017000 10.42.0.1 10.42.0.13 DHCP 342 DHCP Offer - Transaction ID 0x31dc321f
32 25.648589000 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 DHCP 342 DHCP Discover - Transaction ID 0x31dc321f
33 25.648758000 10.42.0.1 10.42.0.13 DHCP 342 DHCP Offer - Transaction ID 0x31dc321f
43 35.864567000 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 DHCP 342 DHCP Discover - Transaction ID 0x31dc321f
48 38.832837000 10.42.0.1 10.42.0.13 DHCP 342 DHCP Offer - Transaction ID 0x31dc321f
----------------------------->8-------------------------------
That's on the wireless client:
----------------------------->8-------------------------------
No. Time Source Destination Protocol Length Info
1171 94.192971000 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 DHCP 342 DHCP Discover - Transaction ID 0x31dc321f
1182 99.263686000 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 DHCP 342 DHCP Discover - Transaction ID 0x31dc321f
1185 109.692642000 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 DHCP 342 DHCP Discover - Transaction ID 0x31dc321f
1186 119.691474000 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 DHCP 342 DHCP Discover - Transaction ID 0x31dc321f
1190 129.907507000 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 DHCP 342 DHCP Discover - Transaction ID 0x31dc321f
----------------------------->8-------------------------------
I'll try to capture data from Dumb AP sometime soon and will reply to the thread.
-Alexey
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