From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: Sergey Ryazanov <ryazanov.s.a@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Per sta interfaces in WDS (4-address) mode
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:13:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120820111321.71c6f07e@mj> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHNKnsRVh_BXqW0CLfxO5WZCJ8UH7O=cHN-zh7AuM_pQj0xUqg@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 21:51:27 +0400
Sergey Ryazanov <ryazanov.s.a@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello dear all,
>
> please tell me, why in the WDS mode, the stack creates a new interface
> for each WDS station, and this interface hostapd adds to the parent AP
> interface bridge? Why we couldn't simply pass this frames via AP
> interface?
You may want to use a completely different IP address and netmask on the
WDS interface. Using the AP interface would take away that option.
hostapd is not a part of the kernel. It should be possible not to add
WDS interfaces to the bridge.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-20 15:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-19 17:51 Per sta interfaces in WDS (4-address) mode Sergey Ryazanov
2012-08-20 15:13 ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
2012-08-22 20:28 ` Felix Fietkau
2012-08-23 6:49 ` Sergey Ryazanov
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