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Re: Problem with bridge (mcast-to-ucast + hairpin) and Broadcom's 802.11f in their FullMAC fw

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On 12 March 2018 at 12:08, Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 11:08:20AM +0100, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>> I've problem when using OpenWrt/LEDE on a home router with Broadcom's
>> FullMAC WiFi chipset.
>
> Hi Rafał,
>
> Thanks for reporting this issue!
>
>> Can you see any solution for this problem? Is that an option to stop
>> multicast-to-unicast from touching 802.11f packets? Some other ideas?
>> Obviously I can't modify Broadcom's firmware and drop that obsoleted
>> standard.
>
> Just to avoid some potential confusion: This is more an issue of
> hairpinning than it is an issue of multicast-to-unicast per se,
> right?
>
> That is, if you set this to 0 manually:
> /sys/class/net/<ap-iface>/brport/multicast_to_unicast
> Then the issue still occurs, right?

I can't really tell, I didn't go into details on bridge +
mcast-to-unicast + hairpin.

By default OpenWrt/LEDE sets
/sys/class/net/<ap-iface>/brport/multicast_to_unicast
to 1. Changing it to 0 (with a simple echo) doesn't /fix/ the problem.

-- 
Rafał




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