On 08/03/2011 02:16 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
How do you propose handling the case where people will hook up>1 device?
Print out a very loud warning? :-)
I think you'd end up mapping the MAC of the PC to the STA, 1-to-1 mapping,
and possibly re-writing the src MAC when coming from the PC to the STA,
and dest MAC when coming from STA to PC.
Users wanting more than one PC could use a different virtual STA.
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?"
Did it at least work for 1-to-1 mapping OK? Did you re-write MACs?
Thanks,
Ben
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
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