Hey, Looking through the receive code, the bridge_packets config option has the effect of copying multicast traffic to the air right away and passing frames to a station without having them go all the way through the network stack. I think there's a flaw with this: when you turn it off, nothing will copy multicast frames to the network as expected by an AP, as far as I can tell. Hence, I think that the bridge_packets must not be honoured for multicast packets. OTOH, for multicast, is it actually correct? Doesn't the AP need to rewrite some fields? As for unicast packets, what is the gain? There's obviously the loss that netfilter won't see the packet which is generally very much frowned upon. Is the performance benefit really that high? I really need more devices for testing :/ johannes
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