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frames reception with mismatched RA #26

Open twpedersen opened 11 years ago

twpedersen commented 11 years ago

Ming Ann reported an issue with ping duplication at: http://lists.open80211s.org/pipermail/devel/2013-March/004193.html

Apparently AR9160 cards and older can't actually implement the FIF_OTHER_BSS filter and just enables promiscuous mode. This causes duplicate frames to be received in a 3 node mesh when / if the hwmp code switches to a multihop path.

See http://lists.open80211s.org/pipermail/devel/attachments/20130313/38b4ad3f/attachment.obj for a patch which ignores frames with mismatched RA even though the HW should do this for us.