On Sun, 2010-03-21 at 09:15 -0700, Gus Wirth wrote: > On 03/20/2010 11:39 PM, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > Bridging doesn't work on the station side anyway because the 802.11 > > header has three addresses (except when WDS is used) omitting the > > address that would be needed for a station to send or receive a packet > > on behalf of another system. > > But there are ways around that. For example, there is a patch called > arpnat that affects ebtables, used by projects like Gargoyle router that > does for MAC addresses that IP masquerading does for IP addresses. > > As such, it is very useful to have a node in managed (station) mode be > able to be part of a bridge, as it allows the creation of an essentially > transparent connection. As it stands now, it's more common that users without that patch try to use bridging on the station side. When/if arpnat is applied to the kernel, the check for managed mode interfaces will need to be revised. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin _______________________________________________ ath5k-devel mailing list ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-devel
