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 only the prism driver/device supports > > this. > Normally wireless drivers do 802.3 framing as the 802.11 standard more > or less requires, so it should "just work". Am I missing something? 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. -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
