On 03/20/2010 11:39 PM, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Sun, 2010-03-21 at 02:06 +0100, Jiri Moravec wrote: >> 2.6.33.1/2.6.34-rc2: >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> ~ # modprobe ath5k >> ~ # brctl addbr br0 >> ~ # brctl addif br0 wlan0 >> can't add wlan0 to bridge br0: Operation not supported > > It's no longer possible to add an interface in the managed mode to a > bridge. You should run hostapd first to pure the interface to the > master mode. > > 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. Gus _______________________________________________ ath5k-devel mailing list ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-devel
