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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Jouni Malinen <jkm@devicescape.com>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: support for bridging ethernet and 802.11
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 19:19:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1178817575.3806.36.camel@johannes.berg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070510171213.GD24712@devicescape.com>

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On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 10:12 -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote:

> IEEE 802.11 allows only the own MAC address to be used as the source
> address (addr2) when operating as a non-AP STA in BSS (client in Managed
> mode). In other words, layer 2 bridging does not work properly. AP mode
> and WDS links can be used for bridging without problems, but this will
> of course require the driver to support these.

Ah forgot about that, I had only thought about AP/wired bridging. How
would the prism driver actually do bridging in STA mode though?

johannes

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-10 17:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CCA1D7C0-D44A-450D-A76E-DAE792E0CB37@kernel.crashing.org>
2007-05-10 17:06 ` support for bridging ethernet and 802.11 Johannes Berg
2007-05-10 17:12   ` Jouni Malinen
2007-05-10 17:19     ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2007-05-10 17:25       ` Jouni Malinen
2007-05-10 18:25         ` Kumar Gala

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