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Bug#588196: b43: does not join multicast groups



Hi,

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 04:05:10PM +0200, Michael Büsch wrote:

> So it is up to the upper layer to detect the failure. I don't think
> it's possible to automatically detect such incidents for multicast
> transmissions. So the mechanism fails here.

Well, it is about *receiving* a multicast transmission (IPv6 router
advertisement, sent to 33:33:00:00:00:01). I have no idea where the
packet is dropped; from my somewhat limited understanding of 802.11, I'd
expect the frames to be treated like broadcast frames by the AP, so it'd
be the receiver dropping them in the MAC filter.

   Simon



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