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Re: [PATCH v2] hostapd: remove vlan stuff

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On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 02:24:49PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:

> This removes the VLAN stuff from hostapd.
> 
> The VLAN stuff in mac80211 cannot possibly work, it doesn't actually do
> anything with those VLAN type interfaces. Also, when I added the VLAN
> type to cfg80211 I must have been rather convinced of the idea; I no
> longer am in favour of doing it in the wireless stack. The recently
> added "macvlan" "driver" shows how you can do VLANs based on destination
> address, what we will need is something like "smacvlan" that does VLANs
> based on source address.

This doesn't sound like a good idea. How would macvlan-based alternative
solve the problem of having different group keys for each VLAN?

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA
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