Re: mac80211 IPv6 problems

[Paul TBBle Hampson <Paul.Hampson@Pobox.com>]

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On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 01:05:00PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 01:02:12AM -0700, Michael Wu wrote:

>> This doesn't seem quite right. I think ieee80211_rx_h_data is a safer place 
>> for this check (inside the IEEE80211_FCTL_FROMDS case), and allows various 
>> statistics to be updated. ieee80211_rx_h_sta_process is another function that 
>> might work though that would probably involve more code to add all the right 
>> checks.

> The patch below seems to work for me w/ an otherwise stock F-7 kernel
> w/ iwl3945.  Thoughts?

> From: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

> [PATCH] mac80211: filter locally-originated multicast frames

> In STA mode, the AP will echo our traffic.  This includes multicast
> traffice.

> Receiving these frames confuses some protocols and applications,
> notably IPv6 Duplicate Address Detection.

> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Worked for me, on bcm43xx-mac80211. Got an IP address from radvd, and
was able to ping6 a couple of places out on the big bad Internet.

Whole kernel is built from wireless-dev,
f2b262a6a8771fe9595f2c08e9d598b97634b266.

Thanks. ^_^

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