From: David Kimdon <david.kimdon@devicescape.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Jouni Malinen <jkm@devicescape.com>,
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 havesameMAC an AP interface
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 06:42:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061010134226.GA4518@devicescape.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1160477427.2727.8.camel@ux156>
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 12:50:27PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 14:38 -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Different question. How do broadcasts to a vlan interface work? Are they
> rewritten to unicasts to all vlan stations?
no, still broadcasts, but in a typical deployment some for of encryption
is used. Each vlan has a unique broadcast key so stations on one vlan
cannot decrypt packets from another vlan.
-David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-10 13:42 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 ` [patch 5/5] d80211: allow wireless vlan interface to have sameMAC " Jouni Malinen
2006-10-09 21:49 ` Johannes Berg
2006-10-10 10:50 ` Johannes Berg
2006-10-10 13:42 ` David Kimdon [this message]
2006-10-10 13:47 ` [patch 5/5] d80211: allow wireless vlan interface to havesameMAC " Johannes Berg
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