I did a little more digging. Apparently this is a valid ARP packet, except the ethertype is wrong. It should be 0x0806, instead of 0x0600.
Anybody has any clue here? Is it a problem in softMAC? Cheers. Jun On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 11:23:22PM -0700, Jun Sun wrote: > > I am running 2.6.21 on a ARM7 MMU-less CPU. I back-ported zd1211rw driver > from 2.6.23 kernel in order to support AL2230S_RF in a Airlink 101 stick. > > Everything seems to be up and running find with iwconfig and ifconfig. > (I had some issues with WEP key, but for now I made AP open). > > However, when I try to ping from the board to the LAN, I got > some weired packets on the network. See below. Specifically, > the ethertype is 0x0600. Very strange. > > Can someone shed some light on this issue? > > Cheers. > > Jun > > -------------- > (NOTE: 00:11:a3:03:bc:9a is my wifi usb stick) > > 23:12:07.043794 00:11:a3:03:bc:9a > Broadcast, ethertype NS (0x0600), length > 60: > 0x0000: 0001 0800 0604 0001 0011 a303 bc9a c0a8 ................ > 0x0010: 017c 0000 0000 0000 c0a8 0101 0000 0000 .|.............. > 0x0020: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 .............. > 23:12:07.490993 arp who-has 192.168.1.122 (Broadcast) tell 192.168.1.254 > 23:12:08.129835 00:11:a3:03:bc:9a > Broadcast, ethertype NS (0x0600), length > 60: > 0x0000: 0001 0800 0604 0001 0011 a303 bc9a c0a8 ................ > 0x0010: 017c 0000 0000 0000 c0a8 0101 0000 0000 .|.............. > 0x0020: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 .............. > 23:12:08.492688 arp who-has 192.168.1.122 (Broadcast) tell 192.168.1.254 > 23:12:09.217643 00:11:a3:03:bc:9a > Broadcast, ethertype NS (0x0600), length > 60: > 0x0000: 0001 0800 0604 0001 0011 a303 bc9a c0a8 ................ > 0x0010: 017c 0000 0000 0000 c0a8 0101 0000 0000 .|.............. > 0x0020: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 .............. > 23:12:09.498076 arp who-has 192.168.1.123 (Broadcast) tell 192.168.1.254 > 23:12:09.498100 arp reply 192.168.1.123 is-at 00:60:08:3a:73:37 > 23:12:09.506017 arp who-has 192.168.1.124 (Broadcast) tell 192.168.1.254 > 23:12:10.510566 arp who-has 192.168.1.124 (Broadcast) tell 192.168.1.254 > 23:12:10.703985 00:11:a3:03:bc:9a > Broadcast, ethertype NS (0x0600), length > 60: > 0x0000: 0001 0800 0604 0001 0011 a303 bc9a c0a8 ................ > 0x0010: 017c 0000 0000 0000 c0a8 0101 0000 0000 .|.............. > 0x0020: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 .............. > 23:12:11.515996 arp who-has 192.168.1.125 (Broadcast) tell 192.168.1.254 > 23:12:11.799559 00:11:a3:03:bc:9a > Broadcast, ethertype NS (0x0600), length > 60: > 0x0000: 0001 0800 0604 0001 0011 a303 bc9a c0a8 ................ > 0x0010: 017c 0000 0000 0000 c0a8 0101 0000 0000 .|.............. > 0x0020: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 .............. > 23:12:12.519093 arp who-has 192.168.1.125 (Broadcast) tell 192.168.1.254 > 23:12:12.890384 00:11:a3:03:bc:9a > Broadcast, ethertype NS (0x0600), length > 60: > 0x0000: 0001 0800 0604 0001 0011 a303 bc9a c0a8 ................ > 0x0010: 017c 0000 0000 0000 c0a8 0101 0000 0000 .|.............. > 0x0020: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 .............. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Zd1211-devs mailing list - http://zd1211.wiki.sourceforge.net/ > Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/zd1211-devs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Zd1211-devs mailing list - http://zd1211.wiki.sourceforge.net/ Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/zd1211-devs
