How do you propose handling the case where people will hook up >1 device? Print out a very loud warning? :-) I did something like this a while ago for a company and their first request was exactly that - "Customer X now wants two devices in a vehicle hooked up to the wireless, it doesn't work, what do we do?" Adrian On 3 August 2011 13:33, Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We have some interest in being able to bridge wired systems to > (virtual) STA interfaces, primarily for using third-party > traffic generation tools over virtual stations. > > I was thinking of writing a sta-bridge module that mapped > incoming packets on a wired interface to a STA with MAC > that matched the source MAC of the packet. All packets > received on the STA would be forwarded un-modified out > the wired port. > > I think this would allow someone to create a STA interface > with MAC matching a PC connected to the wired port and effectively > have it be a transparent bridge between STA and PC. > > Has anyone attempted something like this before? > > Any interest in having this feature in the upstream kernel? > > Thanks, > Ben > > -- > Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com > -- > 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 > -- 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
