[Bridge] Re: [LinuxAP-dev] Help needed on understaing the bridge code

[liqiang zhang]

Hi Eerin,

Thanks ! do you mean hostap does the translation
between the 802.11 frames and wired Ethernet frames so
that the bridge just see the standard wired frames?
and for the WDS case, the hostap will take care the
extra address fields itself? 
Another question is, does the hostap just give the
outgoing traffic to bridge? For example, A and B are
inside of BSS, and C is outside the BSS, 
   A )))))))
           Linux-AP------(    )--C
   B )))))))
then all the traffic between A and B will not even be
seen by bridge code? 
IF this is ture, then this is different from the pure
wired environment, cause in wired cases, the bridge
seems just copy the frames from one side to the other
side, even sometime doesn't have to (like the traffic
between A and B), is this right? please correct me.

Please help !
Thanks ! 

Andrew

--- Eerin_Rosenstr&#39945; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, liqiang zhang wrote:
> 
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > Since the bridge code can take care of both wired
> and
> > wireless frames, I am just wondering how does it
> do
> > this? cause the wired and wireless have different
> 
> > implemenation of bridge and iptables? I found most
> > stuff on website are just telling how to use these
> > things.
> > Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance!
> >
> 
> Trick is WDS (wireless distribution system). It uses
> four MAC address
> format in 803.11b frame. You don't find glue from
> bridge code, but hostap
> code yes.
> 
> check:
> hostap.epitest.fi
> 
> 
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