Multicast Ethernet frames not bridging between wired and wireless, Netgear CPE

[jared at puck.nether.net (Jared Mauch)]

I've seen some Linux boxes in bridge mode do strange things with wireless and ipv6. Using wds mode resolved it. Is the wireless in wds mode?

On Feb 9, 2013, at 2:31 PM, "Christopher J. Pilkington" <cjp at 0x1.net> wrote:

> I've a Netgear 7550 B90 provided by Frontier. (Yes, it's my only choice
> other than VSAT. Rural US. Yes, I am already looking into getting my own
> CPE, but humor me.)
> 
> Since Frontier doesn't support IPv6, I've linux box on the LAN building an
> AYIYA tunnel, and doing the usual router thing on the wired Ethernet.
> Everything on the wired side works splendid.
> 
> Wireless clients didn't seem to want to play. Further digging indicates
> that RA and NS don't cross the bridge from wired to wireless. Manually
> assigning IPv6 address and nailing NDP entries allows ICMPv6 echo request
> to work.
> 
> Has anyone seen this class of device drop multicast between the wireless
> radio and the wired ethernet switch?
> 
> Or am I brain dead this morning and missing something obvious?  Heck, I
> even tried disabling WPA2 thinking it was some wonky encryption thing.
> 
> Thanks,
> -cjp