Because 802.11a/b/g/n does odd things with mac headers which make bridging them sometimes not work as expected. On 30 April 2011 04:33, Joe Harvell <joe.harvell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I tried to bridge a wireless interface to a wired Ethernet interface, > and it failed with "Operation not supported." > > Looking at the kernel code, it seems like this is intentional. ÂI > noticed the following in br_add_if: > > Â Â Â Â/* No bridging devices that dislike that (e.g. wireless) */ > Â Â Â Âif (dev->priv_flags & IFF_DONT_BRIDGE) > Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Âreturn -EOPNOTSUPP; > > I'm curious to know why this is not supported. > > --- > Joe > > _______________________________________________ > Bridge mailing list > Bridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge > _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list Bridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge
