On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 19:09:13 -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
> The AP will act like a bridge/switch according to these rules:
> 
> If a packet enters the wifi device, it will be sent down the wired
> ethernet interface un-changed.
> 
> If a packet enters the wired device, the wifi device with the same
> MAC as the source-MAC in the ethernet frame will be used to transmit
> the packet wirelessly.

If I understand it correctly, you will remove 802.11 header and build
new Ethernet header in the first case and vice versa in the second case.
One of the results will be that the communication between two stations
associated to the AP is not possible.

Well, I don't understand what it is good for (or maybe I haven't
understood you at all?) but if you plan to implement 802.11<->Ethernet
conversion in the bridging code, I'm definitely interested as this may
solve some problems with the generic 802.11 stack.

-- 
Jiri Benc
SUSE Labs
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