David Monniaux, this bug report is being closed due to your last comment
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bcmwl/+bug/414724/comments/11
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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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