From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
To: Nikodem Ciesielski <nikodem.ciesielski@microgen.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 4addr explanation
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:15:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F5F1E53.3000506@openwrt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F5E658B.9060503@microgen.com>
On 2012-03-12 10:07 PM, Nikodem Ciesielski wrote:
> Hello
>
> The question is:
> Does 4addr mode require that wireless device to support WDS mode?
>
> I'm trying to achive the following:
> - bridge wire and wireless interface (Broadcom BCM43224) on Dell Latitude E6510
> os: Ubuntu 11.10 with iw 3.3 (compiled and installed)
> - setting wireless interface to 4addr mode and managed mode
> - connect to Asus RT-n16 (firmware: TomatoUSB by shibby 1.28.0000 MIPSR2-085V K26 USB AIO)
> *- * setting router to AP+WDS mode and add Laptop wireless MAC to WDS device
>
> Simply I want to bridge wireless and wire intterface to work like an ordinary (wire) ethernet bridge.
> And I can't. I followed the instrucion from:
> http://nullroute.eu.org/~grawity/not-a-blog.html
> topic: VirtualBox bridged network and WLAN
>
> I think that my router refuse 4addr packages but I'm not sure.
> Broadcom BCM43224 does not support WDS mode,
> however it seems that 4addr mode can be set
> and the wirelass card is able to assing with the router.
> What can I do?
mac80211 4addr mode is incompatible with the Broadcom specific WDS mode
implemented in your router.
- Felix
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2012-03-12 21:07 4addr explanation Nikodem Ciesielski
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