TDMA link cannot pass data

[Rui Paulo]

On 12 Mar 2010, at 04:32, batcilla itself wrote:

> 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...]
>>>
>>>> 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.
>
>
> Is there any progress/revision found? I have a good test-place: 2
> links outdoor with full control from ethernet side and on-my-table
> setup also, so I can test almost instantly. Also have a pair of SR71a
> (3x3 MIMO .11n) - also can test with TDMA or w/o it.
> Just call.

No time yet to play with this. Sorry.

--
Rui Paulo