New version of iwi(4) - Call for testers

Darren Pilgrim darren.pilgrim at bitfreak.org
Sun Mar 19 23:31:37 UTC 2006


Sam Leffler wrote:
> Darren Pilgrim wrote:
>>
>> Are you referring to the problem in cvsup tests where it will suddenly 
>> stop with a "Network write failure" error?
> 
> Yes.  The issue was that when crypto was done in the host it was 
> sometimes being done in-place on mbufs still owned by the socket 
> (exactly when depended on a lot of things but turning down the mtu 
> increased the likelihood).  If this happened and tcp retransmitted the 
> previously encrypted data then it would send garbage.
> 
> As Max said this was in the net80211 layer and affected all drivers 
> depending on the host to do crypto.  It'll get mfc'd this week (re 
> permitting).

I'm glad to hear I finally have a driver for my wireless NIC that's as 
stable it (currently) gets, since the above is the only problem I've been 
able to coax out of my machine.  So Max... great job!



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