From: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] hostapd: remove vlan stuff
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:22:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070816012239.GQ1415@jm.kir.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1187180689.3998.41.camel@johannes.berg>
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 02:24:49PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> This removes the VLAN stuff from hostapd.
>
> The VLAN stuff in mac80211 cannot possibly work, it doesn't actually do
> anything with those VLAN type interfaces. Also, when I added the VLAN
> type to cfg80211 I must have been rather convinced of the idea; I no
> longer am in favour of doing it in the wireless stack. The recently
> added "macvlan" "driver" shows how you can do VLANs based on destination
> address, what we will need is something like "smacvlan" that does VLANs
> based on source address.
This doesn't sound like a good idea. How would macvlan-based alternative
solve the problem of having different group keys for each VLAN?
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Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-16 1:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-14 22:41 [PATCH] hostapd: remove vlan stuff Johannes Berg
2007-08-15 12:24 ` [PATCH v2] " Johannes Berg
2007-08-16 1:22 ` Jouni Malinen [this message]
2007-08-16 13:20 ` Johannes Berg
2007-08-17 3:06 ` Jouni Malinen
2007-08-17 10:12 ` Johannes Berg
2007-08-16 22:39 ` Johannes Berg
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