multicasts are not forwarded on wifi interface

[Hooshang F]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 10:10 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I forget the details; I'd have to go dig through the commit history.
>
> Which wifi NIC is it?
>
>
> -a
>

It is  a TP-Link TL-WN7200ND wireless USB adapter

# dmesg | grep run
run0: <1.0> on usbus0
run0: MAC/BBP RT3070 (rev 0x0201), RF RT3020 (MIMO 1T1R), address
c0:4a:00:26:02:58
run0: firmware RT2870 loaded

#ifconfig wlan0
wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        ether c0:4a:00:26:02:58
        inet 192.168.20.10 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.20.255
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <hostap>
        status: running
        ssid xxxx channel 1 (2412 MHz 11g) bssid c0:4a:00:26:02:58
        country US authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy MIXED deftxkey 3
        AES-CCM 2:128-bit AES-CCM 3:128-bit txpower 0 scanvalid 60
        protmode CTS wme dtimperiod 1 -dfs




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>
> On 13 August 2015 at 10:11, Hooshang F <ebastan10 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> HI,
> >>
> >> Would you please try freebsd-head? I think this was fixed a while ago,
> >> but I don't think it was ever backported to freebsd-8.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >
> >
> > Unfortunately, it is not possible for us to change the OS right now.
> > I would appreciate if you provide some explanation about the
> > problem and links to revisions where the problem has been fixed to
> > see if we can back-port the fix to 8.3.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> -a
> >>
> >>
> >> On 12 August 2015 at 10:20, Hooshang F <ebastan10 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > We have a freebsd 8.3 wifi-AP running as a VirtulaBox guest
> >> > with 2 ethernet (em0 & em1) and one USB wifi interface (wlan0).
> >> > Everything
> >> > works except that multicast packets arriving on wlan0 interface are
> not
> >> > forwarded on Ethernet interfaces. Also, multicast packets arriving on
> >> > Ethernet interfaces are not forwarded on wlan0 interface (however,
> >> > multicasts are forwarded between Ethernet interfaces). As a result,
> >> > portable devices are not able to discover
> >> > DLNA media servers using UPnP.
> >> >
> >> > The kernel is compiled with MROUTING option and mrouted
> >> > is running with default configuration.
> >> >
> >> > Any points/hints is appreciated.
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