[Avila] fatal ethernet error on gw2348-4

[devel]

Ok, with me being a jokester I forgot to ask, do you think we still need 
your patch you provided some time ago on this, David?

Thanks.

Travis

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "devel" <devel at oberonwireless.com>
To: "Avila" <avila at lists.unixstudios.net>
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 9:37 AM
Subject: Re: [Avila] fatal ethernet error on gw2348-4
Subject: [Avila] > David,
>
> You're kidding...LOL
>
> Travis
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Acker" <dacker at roinet.com>
> To: "Avila" <avila at lists.unixstudios.net>
> Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 9:20 AM
> Subject: Re: [Avila] fatal ethernet error on gw2348-4
>
>
>> 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
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