+netdev On Tue, 2017-09-05 at 15:45 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > > In a way this feature seems mis-designed - you never have 802.1Q tags > over the air, but you're inserting them on RX and stripping them on > TX, probably in order to make bridging to ethernet easier and not > have to have 802.1Q acceleration on the ethernet port, or - well - in > order to have an ability to do this with an ethernet card that only > has a single CPU port.
Ok this isn't really right either - it's only for saving the 802.1Q acceleration on the Ethernet port, really - and saving the extra bridges. To clarify, I think what you - conceptually - want is the following topology: +--- eth0.1 --- br.1 --- wlan0.1 | eth0 ---+--- eth0.2 --- br.2 --- wlan0.2 | +--- eth0.3 --- br.3 --- wlan0.3 where eth0.N is just "ip link add link eth0 name eth0.N type vlan id N" and br.N is obviously a bridge for each, and the wlan0.N are AP_VLAN type interfaces that isolate the clients against each other as far as wifi is concerned. Is this correct? As far as I understand, that's the baseline topology that you're trying to achieve, expressed in terms of Linux networking. Now, you seem to want to compress this to +--- wlan0.1 | eth0 --- br ---+--- wlan0.2 | +--- wlan0.3 and have the 802.1Q tag insertion/removal that's normally configured to happen in eth0.N already be handled in wlan0.N. Also correct? We clearly don't have APIs for this, and I don't think it makes sense in the Linux space - the bridge and wlan0.N suddenly have tagged traffic rather than untagged, and the VLAN tagging is completely hidden from the management view. johannes