[Chilli] Chilli reply not getting back to VLAN

[David Bird]

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> I have been trying to set up a wireless VLAN configuration where for chilli I have enable ieee8021q and tcpmss 1400, and chilli is listening to eth0 interface, and vlan is created on eth0.2 and bridged with the wireless interface.
> 

What you are trying to do is an interesting idea, but that will not work... Chilli sends to the same interface it listens to with it's RAW socket ... It's dhcpif. 

You can, however, run multiple instance of chilli, one for each of your wireless interfaces (or vlans).


> Well from the output of chilli debug messages and also dumping of eth0, I could see that chilli has already responded with the dhcp request and replied with the IP accordingly. 
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> Somehow the output from chilli is unable to get back to eth0.2. Chilli is listening to eth0, that's where it could see all the VLAN traffic with VLAN tags. However, the reply does not seem to get back to eth0.2 or the bridge interface of eth0.2 and wlan0. 
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> I am testing it on coovachili 1.2.5. Most likely is my own problem and so I am looking for suggestion of how to troubleshoot. 
> 
> Thanks.
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