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["Christopher M. Penalver" <christopher.m.penalver@xxxxxxxxx>]

David Monniaux, this bug report is being closed due to your last comment
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** Changed in: bcmwl (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Invalid

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Title:
  wl driver (Broadcom) does not receive ARP packets (broadcasts)

Status in “bcmwl” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  It seems that the wl driver in kernel-2.6.28-14 restricted modules
  (x86_64) does not receive ARP broadcast packets (possibly, it does not
  receive broadcast packets at all).

  Symptom: have two hosts A (your machine with wl and Broadcom) and B on
  the same Ethernet network. Boot them up. Do *not* connect or ping B
  from A. At this point, the ARP cache on B does not know the MAC
  address for A. Try ssh from B to A, it won't find the host. Do a
  single ping from A to B (which creates an entry for A in B's ARP
  cache). ssh from B to A then works.

  The problem can of course be worked around by hardcoding the MAC
  address of the Broadcom/wl host in the ARP caches of the other
  machines on the network, but this is quite unwieldy.

  I suspect the driver does not process Ethernet broadcasts, but I may
  be wrong (I haven't checked).

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: amd64
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
  Package: linux-restricted-modules 2.6.28.14.19
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: linux-meta
  Uname: Linux 2.6.28-14-generic x86_64

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