From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCHv6] mac80211: Add support for hardware ARP query filtering
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 13:47:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1274960825.3669.37.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1274960533-395-1-git-send-email-juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 14:42 +0300, Juuso Oikarinen wrote:
> Some hardware allow extended filtering of ARP frames not intended for
> the host. To perform such filtering, the hardware needs to know the current
> IP address(es) of the host, bound to its interface.
>
> Add support for ARP filtering to mac80211 by adding a new op to the driver
> interface, allowing to configure the current IP addresses. This op is called
> upon association with the currently configured address(es), and when
> associated whenever the IP address(es) change.
>
> This patch adds configuration of IPv4 addresses only, as IPv6 addresses don't
> need ARP filtering.
>
> Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Yay.
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Hmm. Actually, something I just thought of during our IRC discussion,
should we turn it off when we disassociate or something? Do we even
care? I guess not since it'll be reconfigured after the next
association?
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-27 11:47 UTC|newest]
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2010-05-27 11:42 [RFC PATCHv6] mac80211: Add support for hardware ARP query filtering Juuso Oikarinen
2010-05-27 11:47 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2010-05-27 12:07 ` Juuso Oikarinen
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