[OLPC Networking] TCP is broken in mesh mode

Benjamin M. Schwartz bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu
Wed Jun 11 01:15:31 EDT 2008


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Trent Lloyd wrote:
|>> 1. A broadcasts an ARP request for B
|>> 2. B sees the ARP request and replies to A
|>> 3. A receives the ARP reply from B and sends a TCP SYN to B

| Thus I suspect the issue is the nodes simply have no direct
| communication at all given the lack of replies to the ARP packets.. and
| any "other" tcp or ping is not going ot work if arps simply aren't being
| replied to, as ARPs are in no way specific to the connection type.

As I attempted to state above, ARP appears to be working perfectly.
Perhaps you would like to take a look with wireshark at the dumps from
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6463

- --Ben
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