On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 18:30 -0400, Daniel Drake wrote: > 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? It receives its own neighbour solicitation (multicast) packets when the AP sends them back out again. These packets... 23:41:56.046939 00:0a:95:f3:99:92 > 33:33:ff:f3:99:92, ethertype IPv6 (0x86dd), length 78: :: > ff02::1:fff3:9992: ICMP6, neighbor solicitation, who has fe80::20a:95ff:fef3:9992, length 24 You should be able to see this without _any_ IPv6 infrastructure -- and you'll see the link-local IPv6 address remains 'tentative'. Once you've fixed that, setting up a local route advertisement dæmon (radvd) to give you site-local addresses is fairly trivial too -- and then you can also check that Ethernet multicast is working properly. -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
