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Date:      Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:58:43 -0700
From:      Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>
To:        Matthias Apitz <m.apitz@oclcpica.org>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 6.0-REL && iwi && garbaged TCP traffic
Message-ID:  <44DB57B3.6060506@errno.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060810120347.GA8048@rebelion.Sisis.de>
References:  <20060810120347.GA8048@rebelion.Sisis.de>

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Matthias Apitz wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I run the above mentioned combination for W-LAN, at home with
> WEP and in the office with WPA-PSK. From time to time, very seldom,
> I encounter damaged TCP traffic, for example:
> 
> - a mail reaches the next SMTP hop with garbage in the body;
> - fetching a page with HTTP brings up a message about 'bad HTTP
>   request' with some random chars;
> - on 'scp' traffic it stops with a message about 'bad MAC addr';
> 
> Is this a known issue with the iwi driver/firmware? How is it
> possible that higher layer (TCP) does not detect this problem
> in the TCP-checksum stored in the header?
> 
> Thx in advance for any hint

It's a bug fixed since 6.0.

	Sam



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