From: "Jouni Malinen" <jkm@devicescape.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: David Kimdon <david.kimdon@devicescape.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [patch 5/5] d80211: allow wireless vlan interface to have sameMAC an AP interface
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 14:38:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061009213807.GH26254@instant802.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1160343128.4701.6.camel@johannes.berg>
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 11:32:08PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Hm. Now I finally understand the vlan interface type. Neat. How do you
> bind stas to one vlan interface? Is it possible to do on the fly after
> EAP or similar?
Yes, I just merged in support for this (dynamic VLANs) into hostapd.
RADIUS Access-Accept is used select VLAN is being used and the STA is
bound at that point to another virtual interface, if needed.
> Anyway. Wouldn't it make more sense to not even allow setting a MAC
> address different from all AP interfaces, i.e. require that the VLAN
> interface have the same MAC as one of the AP interfaces that exist?
That would be fine, too, but maybe not necessary.
> And then there probably should be a check that prohibits binding a sta
> to a vlan interface that has a different MAC than the AP interface it
> is/was on... or something.
Well, that would probably be correct for most (all?) cases, but then
again, I would probably not bother with this level of validation in
kernel. Whatever is taking care of binding the STA in user space (e.g.,
hostapd) can do the validation.
--
Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-09 21:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20061003181118.537800000@devicescape.com>
2006-10-03 18:12 ` [patch 1/5] d80211: Fix overflow when creating AVS header David Kimdon
2006-10-03 18:12 ` [patch 2/5] d80211: remove unused xr structure members, interface, etc David Kimdon
2006-10-03 18:12 ` [patch 3/5] d80211: remove rate limit code David Kimdon
2006-10-03 18:12 ` [patch 4/5] d80211: retain PS frames for at least STA listen interval David Kimdon
2006-10-03 18:12 ` [patch 5/5] d80211: allow wireless vlan interface to have same MAC an AP interface David Kimdon
2006-10-04 16:47 ` Jiri Benc
2006-10-08 21:32 ` Johannes Berg
2006-10-09 21:38 ` Jouni Malinen [this message]
2006-10-09 21:49 ` [patch 5/5] d80211: allow wireless vlan interface to have sameMAC " Johannes Berg
2006-10-10 10:50 ` Johannes Berg
2006-10-10 13:42 ` [patch 5/5] d80211: allow wireless vlan interface to havesameMAC " David Kimdon
2006-10-10 13:47 ` Johannes Berg
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