netdev - Re: [RFC v2] mac80211: disallow bridging managed/adhoc interfaces

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Date:	Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:59:20 -0500
From:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
To:	Stefan Monnier <monnier@....umontreal.ca>
Cc:	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC v2] mac80211: disallow bridging managed/adhoc interfaces

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 08:59:03PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > 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?

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
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