Re: [RFC v2] mac80211: disallow bridging managed/adhoc interfaces
From: John W. Linville <hidden>
Date: 2009-11-18 02:59:20
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On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 08:59:03PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
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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[...]quoted
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?
If I'm not mistaken, that has a bunch of code embedded in it that among other things can do a layer-2 version of NAT to rewrite the MAC adresses for frames on the air. YMMV... John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville-2XuSBdqkA4R54TAoqtyWWQ@public.gmane.org might be all we have. Be ready. -- 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