On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 08:59:03PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > A number of people have tried to add a wireless interface > > (in managed mode) to a bridge and then complained that it > > doesn't work. It cannot work, however, because in 802.11 > [...] > > To avoid such mistakes in the future, disallow adding a > > wireless interface to a bridge. > > As someone who's been bitten by this, I fully support this change. > Still, it makes me wonder: my broadcom-based home-router using the wl.o > driver can be set in "client bridge" mode. How does it work? If I'm not mistaken, that has a bunch of code embedded in it that among other things can do a layer-2 version of NAT to rewrite the MAC adresses for frames on the air. YMMV... John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx might be all we have. Be ready. -- 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
