On 1/25/07, Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Just thinking off the top of my head, but we may need to NAT because the
AP isn't going to understand the 4-address 802.11s frame format the mesh
uses, which is why we have to NAT.
(...)

I may be completely wrong here; Javier?

You are completely right.  Since early in the project we had the
requirement that Mesh Portals work with standard (non-WDS) APs.  Of
all the design alternatives that were considered, doing NAT seemed to
be the lesser evil.

On 1/25/07, Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 23:40 +0800, David Woodhouse wrote:
> Of course, that would require fixing Ethernet multicast on the mesh :)

Which is pretty high on Javier's list.

Make it *wish* list.  Next week we'll decide whether Marvell or
cozybit will own that task.

Javier
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