[Avila] fatal ethernet error on gw2348-4

[David Acker]

Gianluca Mando' wrote:
> David,
> 
> did you find some solution to this heavy problem?
> 
> We need to operate the avila in bridge mode (it is the most important and basic
> feature of any commercial AP ...) and we have descovered that the ethernet
> ports filter received frames, while it keeps to be able to transmit frames.
> This is a blocking issue for the development of our product.
> 
> I think this is a "heavy" bug of the avila board (it cannot be used for
> developing neither a simple access point). Gateworks guys providing support for
> the board should say if it is a real problem (i.e. it is not caused by some
> misconfiguration of bridging feature, but we repeated the test several times,
> using the classic bridging commands between eth0 and ath0) and should help us to
> provide a solution.
> 

Try this:
modprobe ixp400_eth npe_learning=0

Adding this option seemed to finally get rid of the problem.
-Ack