IP address conflicts
wlan at mac.com
wlan at mac.com
Wed Sep 12 05:14:39 UTC 2007
Hmm.. do you have any logs? How busy was the location?
That net for chilli is probably ok, but misleading as chilli does not
actually calculate its dhcp range from the CIDR network (like it
should). I don't believe anything relevant was change din 1.0.7, but
the current svn version has some more cleanups.
David
On Sep 11, 2007, at 4:16 PM, Gunther Mayer wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm using some test firmware based on coova chilli v1.0.6 and
> openwrt/kamikaze 7.07 and I'm experiencing some really weird ip
> address conflicts:
>
> Somebody connects to the hotspot, logs in and happily surfs away
> while a second person on a different PC associates and via chilli's
> dhcp gets assigned the *same* ip address as the former. The
> consequence is that the second person cannot connect to the
> Internet at all as he/she won't even get to the splash page. I've
> seen this happen on Windows XP at least but it might happen on
> other OS's too.
>
> My chilli subnet is defined as "net 172.18.0.0/22" in my chilli
> config file.
>
> Has anybody seen this happen before? David, were there any changes
> in dhcp.c in v1.0.7 that might have fixed this ? I can't easily
> track source changes because of the absence of a web-based svn
> interface supporting diffs...
>
> Gunther
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: chilli-unsubscribe at coova.org
> For additional commands, e-mail: chilli-help at coova.org
> Wiki: http://coova.org/wiki/index.php/CoovaChilli
> Forum: http://coova.org/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=4
>
More information about the Chilli
mailing list