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Message-Id: <1178817575.3806.36.camel@johannes.berg>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 19:19:35 +0200
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To: Jouni Malinen <jkm@...icescape.com>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@...nel.crashing.org>,
netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: support for bridging ethernet and 802.11
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 10:12 -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> IEEE 802.11 allows only the own MAC address to be used as the source
> address (addr2) when operating as a non-AP STA in BSS (client in Managed
> mode). In other words, layer 2 bridging does not work properly. AP mode
> and WDS links can be used for bridging without problems, but this will
> of course require the driver to support these.
Ah forgot about that, I had only thought about AP/wired bridging. How
would the prism driver actually do bridging in STA mode though?
johannes
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