Re: PROBLEM: rtlwifi drops most IPv6 packets

2015-02-22 Thread Alan Fisher
On 02/17/2015 08:43 AM, Larry Finger wrote: On 02/17/2015 02:29 AM, Alan Fisher wrote: Larry, I am guessing that you have an RTL8188CE, which uses rtl8192ce. Yep, my wireless card is an RTL8188CE The purpose of rtl_is_special_data() is to ensure that management packets have the highest

Re: PROBLEM: rtlwifi drops most IPv6 packets

2015-02-17 Thread Larry Finger
On 02/17/2015 02:29 AM, Alan Fisher wrote: Larry, I am guessing that you have an RTL8188CE, which uses rtl8192ce. Yep, my wireless card is an RTL8188CE The purpose of rtl_is_special_data() is to ensure that management packets have the highest probability of being successfully transmitted

Re: PROBLEM: rtlwifi drops most IPv6 packets

2015-02-17 Thread Alan Fisher
Larry, I am guessing that you have an RTL8188CE, which uses rtl8192ce. Yep, my wireless card is an RTL8188CE The purpose of rtl_is_special_data() is to ensure that management packets have the highest probability of being successfully transmitted by sending them at a low rate. ... It

Re: PROBLEM: rtlwifi drops most IPv6 packets

2015-02-16 Thread Larry Finger
On 02/16/2015 01:35 AM, Alan Fisher wrote: Hello! I have a machine with a Realtek RTL8188 wireless card. This card is handled by the rtl8192 driver. The driver in kernel 3.16.0-4 causes most sent ARP packets to be dropped. ARP packets appear to get through with the driver in kernel 3.19, but

Re: PROBLEM: rtlwifi drops most IPv6 packets

2015-02-16 Thread Larry Finger
On 02/16/2015 01:35 AM, Alan Fisher wrote: Alan, I looked at the routine, and it is returning true for all IPv6 packets. Does the attached patch for 3.18 or 3.19 help? Larry Index: wireless-drivers-next/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/base.c

PROBLEM: rtlwifi drops most IPv6 packets

2015-02-15 Thread Alan Fisher
Hello! I have a machine with a Realtek RTL8188 wireless card. This card is handled by the rtl8192 driver. The driver in kernel 3.16.0-4 causes most sent ARP packets to be dropped. ARP packets appear to get through with the driver in kernel 3.19, but IPv6 packets suffer instead. I have