Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Blocking OGMs from a node for testing purpose

[Antonio Quartulli <ordex@ritirata.org>]

On lun, mag 17, 2010 at 06:53:01 +0800, Marek Lindner wrote:
> On Monday 17 May 2010 05:27:55 Antonio Quartulli wrote:
> > It is what i described just a few rows before..the problem is that
> > adding wlan0 interface to a eth-bridge (using cfg80211 driver) is not
> > possible (due to operation not permitted error, probably because devs
> > don't want to do that :P) either with iwlagn or rt2x00
> 
> Ok, I did not quite get that the first time but it seems you are right: The wifi 
> stack sets IFF_DONT_BRIDGE on any wifi interface in adhoc or station mode to 
> keep it from being added to a bridge. Normally, this would be a very correct 
> behaviour ..
> 
> Then we have to add ebtables support by calling some ebtables hooks that will 
> tell us whether or not to drop the packet ? Is that possible (I'm not the 
> ebtables expert here) ?  :-)
> 
I'm not an expert too :P But it would be very nice, in this way bat0
could be controlled like a bridge.

Thanks.

> Cheers,
> Marek

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Antonio Quartulli

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