From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, johannes@sipsolutions.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] cfg80211: add ap isolation support
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 01:30:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BD621FA.1000405@openwrt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100426232332.GA2079@tuxdriver.com>
On 2010-04-27 1:23 AM, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 01:23:35AM +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote:
>> This is used to configure APs to not bridge traffic between connected stations.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
>
> Is this useful?
Yes, if you have an AP with lots of users that aren't expected to
communicate with each other (e.g. only for internet access), it can save
a lot of airtime by not forwarding every broadcast message emitted from
any station.
I'm sure there are a more situations where this can be useful.
- Felix
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-26 23:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-26 23:23 [PATCH 1/2] cfg80211: add ap isolation support Felix Fietkau
2010-04-26 23:23 ` John W. Linville
2010-04-26 23:30 ` Felix Fietkau [this message]
2010-04-27 0:12 ` John W. Linville
2010-04-27 0:25 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-04-27 1:34 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-04-27 1:42 ` Felix Fietkau
2010-04-27 1:53 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-04-27 6:22 ` Johannes Berg
2010-04-27 0:09 ` Bruno Randolf
2010-04-26 23:23 ` [PATCH 2/2] mac80211: implement " Felix Fietkau
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