From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Kimdon Subject: Re: [patch 5/5] d80211: allow wireless vlan interface to havesameMAC an AP interface Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 06:42:26 -0700 Message-ID: <20061010134226.GA4518@devicescape.com> References: <20061003181118.537800000@devicescape.com> <20061003181233.GE19403@devicescape.com> <1160343128.4701.6.camel@johannes.berg> <20061009213807.GH26254@instant802.com> <1160477427.2727.8.camel@ux156> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jouni Malinen , David Kimdon , netdev@vger.kernel.org, "John W. Linville" , Jiri Benc Return-path: Received: from mail.devicescape.com ([207.138.119.2]:29639 "EHLO mail.devicescape.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750767AbWJJNmo (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:42:44 -0400 To: Johannes Berg Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1160477427.2727.8.camel@ux156> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 12:50:27PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 14:38 -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote: > > > Yes, I just merged in support for this (dynamic VLANs) into hostapd. > > RADIUS Access-Accept is used select VLAN is being used and the STA is > > bound at that point to another virtual interface, if needed. > > Different question. How do broadcasts to a vlan interface work? Are they > rewritten to unicasts to all vlan stations? no, still broadcasts, but in a typical deployment some for of encryption is used. Each vlan has a unique broadcast key so stations on one vlan cannot decrypt packets from another vlan. -David