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Topic: Clientmode MAC-Adress-Filter or channel select

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Post #1
Fees
19 Sep 2007, 09:21

Hi everyone,
i've got the following situation:
Linksys WRT54GL (running Kamikaze 7.07) connected as wireless (routed) client to my university. WEP-Encrytion. Everything is working - so far.
Actually there are 3 outdoor-accesspoints I can "see" (channels 1, 6, 11), all having the same SSID.
But, one of them (usually the one with the best signal) has turned mad and sometimes doesn't assign an IP-Adress and doesn't "let me in".

Is there any way to filter MAC-adresses or channels in sta-mode?

I've tried to set the channel in etc/config/wireless:

config wifi-device  wl0
        option type     broadcom
        option channel  11
        (...)

I've also tried to enable MAC-Filtering as described here http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Kam … figuration

config wifi-device  wl0
        option macfilter        '2'
        option maclist  '00:12:01:XX:XX:XX'
        (...)

..but after restarting the network nothing happens - all my settings are ignored and I'm still connected to the AP with the best signal.

Any ideas?

Post #2
Borromini
19 Sep 2007, 10:06

From the wiki:

Set the variables 

uci set wireless.wl0.macfilter="2"
uci set wireless.wl0.maclist="00:0D:0B:B5:2A:BF 00:0D:0C:A2:2A:BA"
uci commit

Did you do that?

Post #3
Fees
19 Sep 2007, 10:33
Borromini wrote:

Did you do that?

Yes! After that I started the macfilter

/etc/init.d/wlmacfilter start

and restarted networking and nothing happend...

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