On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 8:04 PM, Bruno Randolf <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 07/06/2015 11:46 AM, Richard Palethorpe wrote: > > Bruno, that surprises me somewhat because I have got IBSS mode to work > > on kernel 4.0+. Are you using a slightly older kernel? > > I'm using kernel 3.18 with wireless drivers from backports in OpenWRT > CC, so it should be pretty recent... > > I wonder to what level did you verify the IBSS operation? > > I did get it to basically work as well, sometimes it works well, but > sometimes I get a packet loss of about 15-20% and outages of > connectivity for a while. This happens not always immediately, but > reproducibly after some time. Try pinging for an hour or so...? > > I traced it down to ARP replies being apparently "sent" on the device > (tcpdump shows it locally) but they don't make it onto the "air"... > > If you or anyone else can confirm ad-hoc mode really works, on some > version of the driver, I'll start to investigate more. > > bruno >
I don't recall how long I tested it for before, but I have tested it again and now it is settling down to about 15-20% packet loss. arping has a lower packet loss of around 6%. So as you say, that probably means the handling of at least ARP frames/packets is broken in some way. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
