From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:57750 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752036Ab2BPMDR (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:03:17 -0500 Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:03:04 +0100 From: Stanislaw Gruszka To: Pedro Francisco Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: iwl3945: WPA2+swcrypto=0: receives broadcast only Message-ID: <20120216120303.GD25833@redhat.com> (sfid-20120216_130326_346557_91E445EF) References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 06:41:21PM +0000, Pedro Francisco wrote: > When I connect to a WPA2 AP with swcrypto=0 I get the following kinds > of traffic: > ARP (Broadcast) > DHCP (255.255.255.255) > IGMP (224.0.0.22 and 224.0.0.1) > > If I do a normal DHCP, I get no response. If I do "dhclient -B", > requesting BOOTP broadcast flag, I get an IP, as expected. However ARP > requests go unresponded as expected. > > The closest I've found relative to this is > http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1872 . It is > however reported as fixed on *both* "software/hardware crypto with > WPA2 PSK and EAP" (2009-01-06). > > It seems curious I can receive broadcast traffic but not traffic specific to me. Brodcast traffic encrypted with different key, but perhaps there are some more differences. I think that hw crypto problems can be fixed only in firmware, but I'm not sure. > I'd present the debug of iwl3945 but apparently that option was > removed from iwl3945 module? ??? absolutily not, perhaps you did not compile CONFIG_IWLEGACY_DEBUG=y ? Stanislaw