6.0-REL && iwi && garbaged TCP traffic

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Friday, August 11, 2006 a las 11:57:39AM +0400, Andrey V. Sokolov escribió:

> Hi Matthias
> Really fixed?
> See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/88793
> wlan(4) broken, sends corrupted packets with iwi(4) or ral(4)
> State open
> Release FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE i386
> I am working under 6.0-REL and I have this bug not fixed.

Hi,

Andrey, It was not me who said that the bug is fixed, but Sam.

Sam, do you see a way to get this fixed on my 6.0-REL kernel,
ie. without updating my whole laptop to another FreeBSD version?

Thx

	matthias
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> abc
> 
> On Thursday 10 August 2006 19:58 Sam Leffler wrote:
> > Matthias Apitz wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I run the above mentioned combination for W-LAN, at home with
> > > WEP and in the office with WPA-PSK. From time to time, very seldom,
> > > I encounter damaged TCP traffic, for example:
> > >
> > > - a mail reaches the next SMTP hop with garbage in the body;
> > > - fetching a page with HTTP brings up a message about 'bad HTTP
> > >   request' with some random chars;
> > > - on 'scp' traffic it stops with a message about 'bad MAC addr';
> > >
> > > Is this a known issue with the iwi driver/firmware? How is it
> > > possible that higher layer (TCP) does not detect this problem
> > > in the TCP-checksum stored in the header?
> > >
> > > Thx in advance for any hint
> >
> > It's a bug fixed since 6.0.
> >
> > 	Sam
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