Bug 729952 - Vodafone k3805-z requires "ifconfig usb0 -arp" prior to connecting to achieve connectivity
Summary: Vodafone k3805-z requires "ifconfig usb0 -arp" prior to connecting to achieve...
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: ModemManager
Version: 16
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Dan Williams
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-08-11 11:38 UTC by Pedro Francisco
Modified: 2013-01-31 12:46 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-01-31 12:46:11 UTC
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Description Pedro Francisco 2011-08-11 11:38:45 UTC
Description of problem:
Vodafone k3805-z requires "ifconfig usb0 -arp" prior to connecting to achieve connectivity

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
0.4.998 - 1.git20110706.fc15

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. plug usb modem and workaround whatever needed to connect (#697122)
2. try to ping/access some site
  
Actual results:
Nothing happens (Wireshark shows ARP requests being sent to every IP one tries to connect with)

Expected results:
Ping should be successful.

Additional info:
$ route -n [with or without NOARP]
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         U     0      0        0 usb0

Also, the driver on Windows 7 has an option which says "Enable promiscuous mode" (?on a 3G pen?) which, after enabled, results on the same behavior as if one does "ifconfig usb0 arp" on Linux.

Comment 1 Karl Fischer 2011-08-22 07:18:41 UTC
I can confirm this bug, with this hardware.

The "ifconfig usb0 -arp" workaround works.

Comment 2 Dan Williams 2012-07-20 22:44:18 UTC
Huh, quite odd.  Probably something we should do for all 3G devices that provide eth ports, since they are all acutally point-to-point underneath.  I have just bought a K3805z off ebay that I can use to test this out when it arrives.

Comment 3 Pedro Francisco 2012-07-21 08:14:35 UTC
@Dan Williams : Hello! Just to point out you will also find bug #745454 if using Gnome-Shell ;)

Also, I don't know if all devices are affected. Looking at https://github.com/andrewbird/wader/blob/master/resources/udev/99-wader-quirks.rules you can see a relatively small list of quirks.

(that URL is the temporary Git repo of Vodafone's https://forge.betavine.net/projects/bcm (which curiously is hidden from public project list), as the result of the migration off SVN https://forge.betavine.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=245 )

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Comment 5 Pedro Francisco 2013-01-31 12:46:11 UTC
At least on Fedora 18, the device is now recognized as "wwan0" and no longer requires ifconfig INTERFACE_NAME -arp .

Closing bug.


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