From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [RFC] mac80211: disallow bridging managed/adhoc interfaces Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:04:20 -0800 Message-ID: <20091117090420.0434edc3@nehalam> References: <1258465585.3682.7.camel@johannes.local> <200911171504.54170.mb@bu3sch.de> <1258466868.3682.13.camel@johannes.local> <20091117083741.1b165274@nehalam> <1258476223.21197.0.camel@johannes.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Michael Buesch , netdev , linux-wireless , Felix Fietkau To: Johannes Berg Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1258476223.21197.0.camel-YfaajirXv2244ywRPIzf9A@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-wireless-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:43:43 +0100 Johannes Berg wrote: > 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. > > 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. > Then how does this work now? And will your change break it? kvm1 / ====> wlan0 --- bridge-- kvm2 \ kvm3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html