Re: [Madwifi-users] Kernel panic when configured as bridge or router

[Greg C. <ma...@at...>]

Daniel Swarbrick wrote:

>I have a Slackware 9.1 box running kernel 2.4.22, and have set up madwifi
>with a Proxim/Orinoco 802.11abg PCI card in master mode. That part all works
>fine - I can associate to the Linux box and successfully transfer data at
>quite high rates.
>
>The problem comes when I try to add the ath0 interface to a bridge interface
>(br0) along with eth0. As soon as ath0 receives a frame that needs to be
>forwarded to eth0, the kernel panics in skbuff.c at line 109 (BUG()).
>
>I've tried the latest 2.3-pre kernel, ebtables patches, even tried kernel
>2.6.0-test8. All have the same problem. Thinking it was maybe just something
>peculiar to the bridging code, I tried setting it up as a wireless router
>instead. Wouldn't ya know it? As soon as ath0 received a packet that was to
>be routed to eth0, it panicked.
>
>Right now I am going to option three. A proxy. That seems to be working ok.
>
>Has anyone else tried this and encountered this bug? I'd really prefer to
>have it set as a wireless bridge, or as a second choice, a router. Proxies
>aren't quite so useful.
>
>
>
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what happens if you don't use ath0, but instead bridge between two eth 
devices?