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From: Johannes Berg <johannes-cdvu00un1VgdHxzADdlk8Q@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] mac80211: disallow bridging managed/adhoc interfaces
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:43:43 +0100
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On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 08:37 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

> But there are people bridging wireless, and hostap even has a mode for
> that.=20

But that's the AP side, which this patch doesn't attempt to prevent. It
just makes no sense to bridge when connected to an AP or part of an
IBSS.

johannes

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