Return-path: Received: from smtp136.iad.emailsrvr.com ([207.97.245.136]:41894 "EHLO smtp136.iad.emailsrvr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754304AbXHBWbz (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 18:31:55 -0400 Message-ID: <46B25B04.5020804@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 18:30:28 -0400 From: Daniel Drake MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Woodhouse CC: Larry Finger , Michael Buesch , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, jbenc@suse.cz, flamingice@sourmilk.net Subject: mac80211 IPv6 problems References: <46b1fde0.b+weBDN75J0SPe2a%Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> <200708021807.20649.mb@bu3sch.de> <46B20695.2080100@lwfinger.net> <1186088678.2931.10.camel@pmac.infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <1186088678.2931.10.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: David Woodhouse wrote: > My experience is that mac80211 is broken w.r.t IPv6 -- it receives its > own packets. It would be suboptimal for me if the softmac version of > bcm43xx were to go away before that got fixed. This may be a stack-level issue. This is one of the issues holding back zd1211rw-mac80211 going into mainline: we have a report that zd1211rw-softmac works fine with IPv6 but mac80211 only works occasionally with the same device on the same system. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks, Daniel