From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stefan Monnier Subject: Re: [RFC v2] mac80211: disallow bridging managed/adhoc interfaces Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:59:03 -0500 Message-ID: References: <1258465585.3682.7.camel@johannes.local> <1258490898.21197.42.camel@johannes.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org Return-path: Sender: linux-wireless-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org > A number of people have tried to add a wireless interface > (in managed mode) to a bridge and then complained that it > doesn't work. It cannot work, however, because in 802.11 [...] > To avoid such mistakes in the future, disallow adding a > wireless interface to a bridge. As someone who's been bitten by this, I fully support this change. Still, it makes me wonder: my broadcom-based home-router using the wl.o driver can be set in "client bridge" mode. How does it work? Stefan -- 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