On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 6:08 AM, Martin T <[email protected]> wrote: > According to /etc/config/wireless configuration file documentation, > "option 'isolate' '1'" isolates wireless clients from each other in > case device is working in WAP mode. In other words 802.11a/b/g/n > clients are not able to reach each other in the same collision domain. > For example if I set "option 'isolate' '1'" then I'm not able to ping > or arping a host in the same 802.11g network. This setting does not > change any firewall rules according to "iptables -L". In addition, > there is no ebtables installed. How is this technically achieved? Is > this part of 802.11 standards? I haven't found an article which > explains this. I guess this isolation is done on physical > layer(802.11a/b/g/n)?
I believe it has to do with the bridging component, and MAC forwarding tables, not firewall rules. So data from a MAC is not forwarded to other local MACs, only to the outside world. But a developer might be able to give a more detailed explanation of exactly how it works. _______________________________________________ openwrt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-users
