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Re: [RFC v2] mac80211: disallow bridging managed/adhoc interfaces

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On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 21:59 -0500, John W. Linville wrote:

> > 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.

Yeah, that's how it works. You can probably achieve the same effect with
the ebtable_nat module in ebtables but I've never even attempted to try
that.

johannes

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