TDMA link cannot pass data

[batcilla itself]

2010/2/11 Rui Paulo <rpaulo at freebsd.org>:
> On 10/02/2010 22:24, batcilla itself wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 3 Jan 2010, at 12:23, Kim Culhan wrote:
>>
>> [skip...]
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>>> This is odd. What happens without the bridge?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Rui Paulo
>>
>> I guess without the bridge ping going w/o any problem.
>>
>> I also tried couple of configs with wlan in different wlanmode, hostap
>> etc:
>> it is precisely same as Kim wrote. In case of use routed connection it
>> work just fine.
>> In case of:
>>
>> [host1]----(eth===bridge0===gif)----wlan0=====wirelesslink=====wlan0---(gif===bridge0===eth)----[host2]
>> it is works and host1 can ping host2.
>> in case of
>>
>> [host1]----(eth===bridge0===wlan0)----====wirelesslink====-----(wlan0===bridge0===etc)---[host2]
>> broadcast packets including arp can go through bridge, other packets
>> miss after leaving wlan in direction of wirelesslink.
>>
>> I seen this on very recent 8-STABLE. (FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #1: Thu Feb
>> 4 23:03:37 EET 2010)
>>
>> Can it be somehow linked with experimental bridging support for a mesh?
>> May be there is some sysctl need to be set in non-default value.
>>
>> I also repeat same test with 9-CURRENT ( FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #0: Thu
>> Feb  4 16:16:02 UTC 2010 ).
>>
>> This is really odd...
>
> I think this is more likely related to ARP and routing table issues. I asked
> the submitter to use p5-SVN-Bisect in order to find the revision that broke.
I am not sure, because 1st additional test I did was to use static arp
entries and put ping.
In that case ping also not go, it transmitted, answered and answer
lost in "radio"
forwarding was off in that test.
in other test, where it was on and hosts was routed anything working OK.

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> --
> Rui Paulo
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