On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Yeoh Chun-Yeow <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think that the current forwarding logic is correct.
>
> Because when you have a new incoming ICMP request packet with a
> specific MAC address, it should be considered as an unicast frame with
> unknown forwarding information after the mesh STA is rebooted. The
> mesh STA starts the path discovery inside the MBSS, because the
> intended destination can be actually located inside the MBSS itself.
> If it is outside the MBSS, we probably need PXU (Proxy Update)
> mechanism to inform the newly joined mesh STA about this.
>
> But I am not too sure why it work on older compat. Need to take a look on 
> this.

The address mapping in tx.c experienced the following two changes:

27f0112 mac80211: fix DS to MBSS address translation
7c41f31 mac80211: Fix the Problem of Unreachable Mesh STA from DS

-- 
Thomas
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