On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 14:42 +0300, Juuso Oikarinen wrote: > Some hardware allow extended filtering of ARP frames not intended for > the host. To perform such filtering, the hardware needs to know the current > IP address(es) of the host, bound to its interface. > > Add support for ARP filtering to mac80211 by adding a new op to the driver > interface, allowing to configure the current IP addresses. This op is called > upon association with the currently configured address(es), and when > associated whenever the IP address(es) change. > > This patch adds configuration of IPv4 addresses only, as IPv6 addresses don't > need ARP filtering. > > Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@xxxxxxxxx> Yay. Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Hmm. Actually, something I just thought of during our IRC discussion, should we turn it off when we disassociate or something? Do we even care? I guess not since it'll be reconfigured after the next association? johannes -- 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
