Re: NetGear MA401 problems on -CURRENT...

> > : *) The entire IP suite is horked (ICMP, UDP, TCP) and I'm wondering if
> > :  this has something to do with any of the recent hostap/wi changes.
> > 
> > You might try the latests fixes to hostap wrt promisc modes.  They
> > help a lot if you are using hostap.  If you aren't using hostap,
> > then I don't know what's going on.
> 
> Sorry for the vague 20K mi up PR, I really am stumped and am not sure
> where to begin looking.  I'm not using hostap, both of these cards are
> in infrastructure mode.  What really confuses me and makes me think
> this isn't a wi problem, is that when I send off say an ICMP packet,
> on the laptop I can see the reply in tcpdump even though ping never
> see's the packet.  To me that says that wi got the packet packet and
> therefore the problem isn't in the wi driver.
> 
> Just to make things a little stranger, if you ping the laptop's IP
> address from the laptop, it works 100% of the time if you haven't been
> pinging a remote addr.  If you have, then expect to get about a 90%
> packet loss.  :-/
> 
> Any thoughts on who or where I can poke to get additional info?  I'll
> run truss/ktrace on ping in the AM, but am wondering if there are any
> other diags or ways of trying to tease apart what's going on?  -sc

Just as an FYI, I am currently supping my laptop with an xl net card
so the problem is definately wireless related.  Once I get a fresh
build on there I'll see if the problem still persists or if this is
fixed/broken with the hostap changes.  -sc

-- 
Sean Chittenden

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