> What may be worth trying is a Linux 2.1.x kernel. I would recommend
> 2.1.20 although don't try and use modules as they are broken at the
> moment in 2.1 land. Does the problem still persist ?
>
I did try 2.1.14 at the time, this is where i started seeing the problem, it
was a coinsidence that i ever saw it, simply because i was fooling around
with bpq ethernet at the time, which by the way has absolutly nothing to do
with the listen problem...
I could of course try it this coming week with 2.1.20..
Maybe there is someone else who can reproduce the problem as well, all that
is needed is 2 machines linked with ethernet, one of which will have the
radio(s), do a ping from the machine which is on ethernet to a host BEYOND
the router, the ping request packet will be shown normaly, but when the ping
reply is seen it will (i hope) be corrupt, thus showing the problem..
> Its a strange one to say the least. The more I think about it the more
> the problem appears to be in the interface code between the device
> drivers and the protocols. You must remember that amateur radio is one of
> the few things that uses should promiscuous monitoring of incoming and
> outgoing frames, and a bug in that part of the kernel may not be stamped
> on as quickly as in other parts.
>
Agreed, considering the fact that i can reproduce this on a machine running
a 1.3.76 kernel and ax25-utils 1.3.60. This must show that this feature or
bug has been there for a long time.
> Jonathan
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