broadcast packet

[Bjorn Andersson]

On Tue 01 Sep 06:02 PDT 2015, Thomas B. R?cker wrote:

> On 08/31/2015 07:10 AM, yfw wrote:
> > Hi list,
> > I am using Dragon board which is msm8916 based and use wcn3620.
> > And hit an issue with wcn36xx wifi driver:
> >
> > It looks like the driver can't receive broadcast packet. When
> > I tried to using "ping -b 255.255.255.0" from other box and dump
> > the packet received, there is no any broadcast packet reported.
> >
> > I am wondering whether this issue could be reproduced on other
> > platform with wcn36xx driver. If you could help to try it in your
> > devices and let me know the result, that will be great. Thanks
> > in advance.
> 
> You'll find, that this is closely related to what I reported in my
> previous mail:
> Message-ID: <55A4EDE4.9000602 at ruecker.fi>
> 
> The driver does not implement configuration of the various filters that
> the firmware/hardware seems to have, which means it's in an undefined
> default state. This state seems to filter all broadcast and external ARP
> traffic by default, which also breaks most of IPv6.
> 
> To get things working you'll have to implement a minimum of
> configuration, probably by sniffing what the original driver does and
> modifying single configuration values.
> 

Pardon my drive-by-answer, didn't "69a88cc7b164 wcn36xx: initialize
device defaults on start" bring such configuration mechanism?

Regards,
Bjorn