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Re: support for bridging ethernet and 802.11

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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 used for bridging without problems, but this will
> of course require the driver to support these.

Ah forgot about that, I had only thought about AP/wired bridging. How
would the prism driver actually do bridging in STA mode though?

johannes

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