On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 01:16:30PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> >> With STP disabled it is still possible to use the same type of packet
> >> socket to receive EAPOL frames. However, the frames will now end up
> >> being received from the bridge interface (e.g., br0), not Ethernet
> >> (eth0). In other words, the supplicant will need to know that it needs
> >> to bind to another interface.
> 
> That is fixed in 2.6.17, STP and other link local frames go up
> through the stack, but are not forwarded.

Thanks! This does indeed fix the issue I was seeing and does it nicely
without requiring complex workarounds for being able to process EAPOL
frames.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA
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