From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Nicolas <nicolas@no-spam.net>
Cc: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Bridge] Ethernet+Wireless Bridge?
Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 14:32:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080502183239.GC13183@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <481B034B.70606@no-spam.net>
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 02:04:27PM +0200, Nicolas wrote:
> John W. Linville a écrit :
> >
> > Spoofing the source MAC is actually forbidden by the 802.11 standard.
> But wouldn't it be possible, as a temporary and dirty fix, to simply
> send any outgoing frames with the wireless interface MAC as the source
> MAC when the bridge send on a wireless interface ?
Having given this almost no thought, I suppose it might be possible to
make it 'work' (for some definition of 'work'), in combination with
routing and proxy ARP. Of course if you are going to route anyway,
it is hard to see why you would need to bridge.
John
--
John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-02 18:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-28 9:25 [Bridge] Ethernet+Wireless Bridge? "Peter Valdemar Mørch (Lists)"
2008-04-28 12:53 ` John W. Linville
2008-04-28 14:04 ` Mark S. Mathews
2008-04-28 15:29 ` "Peter Valdemar Mørch (Lists)"
2008-04-28 16:28 ` John W. Linville
2008-04-29 10:29 ` "Peter Valdemar Mørch (Lists)"
2008-04-29 12:10 ` Srinivas M.A.
2008-04-29 13:15 ` John W. Linville
2008-04-29 15:22 ` "Peter Valdemar Mørch (Lists)"
2008-04-29 17:22 ` John W. Linville
2008-05-02 12:04 ` Nicolas
2008-05-02 18:32 ` John W. Linville [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20080502183239.GC13183@tuxdriver.com \
--to=linville@tuxdriver.com \
--cc=bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org \
--cc=nicolas@no-spam.net \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.