First figure out how to disable the wireless adapter's internal switch/bridging.

Then modify your control logic so that it sends packets back through the 
wireless interface when appropriate.

-- Murphy

On Dec 30, 2013, at 12:38 PM, Sayed Qaiser Ali Shah <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> Oh Murphy thanks for you kind help. That is what I was having problem as I 
> mentioned earlier that in port and out port should be wlan0? I mean what you 
> said. So what to do next to solve this issue? From where can I start?
> 
> 
> On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 1:32 AM, Murphy McCauley <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> Ah.  Wireless interfaces generally have what is basically their own internal 
> switch.  When a packet comes in from one wireless client and is destined for 
> another wireless client, you may well never see it in the OpenFlow switch 
> because the packet never comes "out" of the interface and instead takes a 
> hairpin turn somewhere before that.
> 
> This internal switch can sometimes be disabled (for example, I think you may 
> be able to do this on madwifi by setting ap_bridge to 0).  However, you'll 
> usually need to do some modifications to your logic in the controller to make 
> this actually work.  If you want the switch to forward between two wireless 
> devices, this looks like you're receiving and sending over the same port.  
> This is usually a bad thing, and OpenFlow doesn't do it without an explicit 
> output action to the special "input port" virtual port.
> 
> -- Murphy
> 
> On Dec 30, 2013, at 8:50 AM, Sayed Qaiser Ali Shah <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Thank you Murphy for your reply. I checked the problem by getting packets 
>> from wireshark and checked packet out. The problem I have is because of 
>> Wireless Interface. I am using wireless interface i.e. wlan0 for 
>> communication. I am pinging systems using WiFi. By checking POX controller I 
>> got that controller is sending flood message to AP. The following code of 
>> POX controller is executing
>> 
>> else:
>>       if packet.dst not in self.macToPort: # 4
>>         flood("Port for %s unknown -- flooding" % (packet.dst,)) # 4a
>> 
>> which means that it not getting destination mac to be saved. Now I am unable 
>> to add flow manually because my data is transferring via wlan0 now what 
>> should I define for in port and out port?
>> How can I add flow in Openwrt for two PCs using Wireless LAN?
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Sayed Qaiser Ali Shah 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Yes Murphy I am using l2_learning and POX controller log shows switch is 
>> connected but is not taking any action. I am also confused and don't know 
>> what is the problem.
>> May be there is problem with configuration of switch. Because when 
>> controller is down it still pings devices connected to switch. Don't know 
>> what to do with.
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 3:47 AM, Murphy McCauley <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> I'm confused.  You say the controller isn't taking action, but also that 
>> you're running l2_learning (which takes action).
>> 
>> If you run...
>> ./pox.py samples.pretty_log --DEBUG openflow.of_01 --address=192.168.1.2 
>> --port=6633
>> .. the POX log should say that the switches have connected and pings 
>> shouldn't go through.  Yes?  No?
>> 
>> -- Murphy
>> 
>> On Dec 29, 2013, at 1:55 PM, Sayed Qaiser Ali Shah 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello everybody,
>>> 
>>> I am using POX controller on my Laptop. I have installed OpenWRT on TP Link 
>>> 1043 nd. IP's of devices are as follows.
>>> WAN port of Tp Link to which Laptop (controller is attached) : 192.168.1.1
>>> IP of Laptop: 192.168.1.2
>>> 
>>> To assign different network to wireless devices
>>> I have assigned IP to wlan0 via ifconfig. i.e. ifconfig wlan0 192.168.2.1
>>> IP of PC1: 192.168.2.2
>>> IP of PC2: 192.168.2.3
>>> 
>>> I connected PC1 and PC2 to devices successfully. Controller was unplugged 
>>> and when I pinged PC2 from PC1 it was successful. But what I want is 
>>> devices don't ping when controller has not defined a rule for that flow and 
>>> flow is saved in AP.
>>> Note: I am getting packets (Logs) on controller but controller is not 
>>> taking any decision. I am running l2_learning just for checking by using 
>>> command
>>> ./pox.py openflow.of_01 --address=192.168.1.2 --port=6633 
>>> forwarding.l2_learning samples.pretty_log.
>>> Please anybody help me out of this. I am stuck in this since last month.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Regards
>>> 
>>> Sayed Qaiser Ali Shah
>>> MSI
>>> NUST (SEECS)
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Regards
>> 
>> Sayed Qaiser Ali Shah
>> MSIT-12
>> NUST (SEECS)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Regards
>> 
>> Sayed Qaiser Ali Shah
>> MSIT-12
>> NUST (SEECS)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards
> 
> Sayed Qaiser Ali Shah
> MSIT-12
> NUST (SEECS)

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