From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <hideaki.yoshifuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 10:59:14 +0900 > Upper-layer needs to cope eith situation of seeing packets with > "incorrect" L2 header anyway (e.g., in promiscous mode). > I do not see much advantage to drop them here. It's required to prevent wireless nodes from using the shared wireless group keys (used for multicast transmission) to inject unicast frames. The RFCs really do specify this at least on the ipv4 side. -- 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
