[Avila] Problem with wds bridging on avila board

[Joel Lindsay]

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I am seeing a weird problem.  When I create a wds link between 2 avila
boards with a laptop connected on both ends, everything works just as
expected.  When I take one end and put it on my network, suddenly I can't
ping past the board on that network side.  Its like the packets are being
dropped, but only when its part of a larger network (switch, then router)

 

It seems very similar to a former problem that was caused by multicast
traffic and was solved by setting the argument npe_learning=0 when
modprobing the ethernet driver.  This leads me to believe it is again a ixp
npe problem.

 

I have tried compiling the GPL Ethernet driver to see if this helps, but am
having no luck as I keep getting mutex errors that I can't seem to make go
away.

 

Has anyone seen this problem before?  Anyone know how to fix it?  Is it
another npe problem?

 

Any help appreciated.

 

Joel Lindsay

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