is UDP broadcast over wlan broken?

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From: Ortwin Glück <hidden>
Date: 2011-05-22 14:41:59
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Hi,

On 2.6.38.6 I can no longer receive UDP broadcasts over wireless interfaces.
This affects CUPS zeroconf (port 631 broadcasts). Other UDP traffic (like DNS
lookups) works fine.

I can see UDP broadcasts originate fine on 192.168.111.11/24 (my router):
# uname -a
Linux gandalf 2.6.38.6 #11 SMP PREEMPT Tue May 10 13:42:44 CEST 2011 x86_64
Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU 540 @ 3.07GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
# tcpdump -np -i wlan0 udp and port 631
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
listening on wlan0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes
16:15:21.695230 IP 192.168.111.11.631 > 192.168.111.255.631: UDP, length 151


But these packets are not received on 192.168.111.10/24 (the client):
# uname -a
Linux mithril 2.6.39 #2 SMP PREEMPT Sun May 22 14:22:23 CEST 2011 i686 Intel(R)
Core(TM)2 CPU T7600 @ 2.33GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
# tcpdump -n -i wlan0 udp and port 631
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
listening on wlan0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes
^C
0 packets captured
0 packets received by filter
0 packets dropped by kernel

I made very sure that nothing is dropped by netfilter on either side.
Both sides use ath9k as their wifi driver.

Ortwin
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