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Re: Repeater Bridge Mode with ar9170?

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On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 10:39 -0500, Jon Loeliger wrote:

> I think I need to do this strictly from a client/station perspective.
> The only AP in this picture would be the "upstream" AP to which my
> client is associated.  We shouldn't be changing any code running on
> those APs at all.

Right. Still though, an AP implementing it wouldn't seem to be
compliant, so I would have guessed that APs don't implement this.

> Which leads to me trying to figure out how the client is able to
> know what the correct "MAC level NAT address" needs to be to
> when it converts the 802.11 header to the 802.3 header.  Doesn't
> the upstream AP have to have already sent you 4-address frames
> for this to work?  Or will it respond with a 4-address frame if
> it is sent a 4-address frame from the station?

No idea. Nothing of this is specified in 802.11 or anywhere else, so
it's all implementation dependent hacks.

johannes

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