On 2012-03-12 10:07 PM, Nikodem Ciesielski wrote: > Hello > > The question is: > Does 4addr mode require that wireless device to support WDS mode? > > I'm trying to achive the following: > - bridge wire and wireless interface (Broadcom BCM43224) on Dell Latitude E6510 > os: Ubuntu 11.10 with iw 3.3 (compiled and installed) > - setting wireless interface to 4addr mode and managed mode > - connect to Asus RT-n16 (firmware: TomatoUSB by shibby 1.28.0000 MIPSR2-085V K26 USB AIO) > *- * setting router to AP+WDS mode and add Laptop wireless MAC to WDS device > > Simply I want to bridge wireless and wire intterface to work like an ordinary (wire) ethernet bridge. > And I can't. I followed the instrucion from: > http://nullroute.eu.org/~grawity/not-a-blog.html > topic: VirtualBox bridged network and WLAN > > I think that my router refuse 4addr packages but I'm not sure. > Broadcom BCM43224 does not support WDS mode, > however it seems that 4addr mode can be set > and the wirelass card is able to assing with the router. > What can I do? mac80211 4addr mode is incompatible with the Broadcom specific WDS mode implemented in your router. - Felix -- 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
