Re: support for bridging ethernet and 802.11

2007-05-10 Thread Kumar Gala
On May 10, 2007, at 12:25 PM, Jouni Malinen wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 07:19:35PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: Ah forgot about that, I had only thought about AP/wired bridging. How would the prism driver actually do bridging in STA mode though? If that is referring to Host AP driver, the

Re: support for bridging ethernet and 802.11

2007-05-10 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 07:19:35PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > Ah forgot about that, I had only thought about AP/wired bridging. How > would the prism driver actually do bridging in STA mode though? If that is referring to Host AP driver, there is support for using WDS in client mode. If the AP

Re: support for bridging ethernet and 802.11

2007-05-10 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 07:06:21PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 11:18 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: > > I'm wondering how to tell if a given driver/device in the kernel > > supports the ability to bridge between ethernet and 802.11. From > > searching the web it looks like o

Re: support for bridging ethernet and 802.11

2007-05-10 Thread Johannes Berg
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

Re: support for bridging ethernet and 802.11

2007-05-10 Thread Johannes Berg
[adding linux-wireless] On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 11:18 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: > I'm wondering how to tell if a given driver/device in the kernel > supports the ability to bridge between ethernet and 802.11. From > searching the web it looks like only the prism driver/device supports > this.

support for bridging ethernet and 802.11

2007-05-10 Thread Kumar Gala
I'm wondering how to tell if a given driver/device in the kernel supports the ability to bridge between ethernet and 802.11. From searching the web it looks like only the prism driver/device supports this. - k - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body