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I would like to clarify some details on this :
<p>Jouni Malinen wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 11:38:04AM +0530, Peyush
Agarwal wrote:
<p>> 1. Is the fwdng for the "Data frames" in hostap done at the driver
level OR the firmware itself does this
<br>> without passing the frames to the driver ?
<p>Host AP driver bridges frames between associated stations and Linux
<br>kernel bridge code (if used) bridges between wireless and wired (or
<br>other wireless) interfaces.</blockquote>
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<p><b><font color="#3333FF">If we have a setup something like this:</font></b><b><font color="#3333FF"></font></b>
<p><b><font color="#3333FF">STA-1 --> AP-1 --
AP -2 --> STA 2</font></b><b><font color="#3333FF"></font></b>
<p><b><font color="#3333FF">AP-1 and AP-2 has one wireless physical interface
(wlan0).</font></b><b><font color="#3333FF"></font></b>
<p><b><font color="#3333FF">For STA-1 to communicate to STA-2 via AP -
1 and AP -2, do we need the WDS link ?</font></b><b><font color="#3333FF"></font></b>
<p><b><font color="#3333FF">If there is a WDS link between AP-1 and AP-2
(wlan0wds0), can hostap driver forward the packet at the WLAN level
?</font></b><b><font color="#3333FF"></font></b>
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OR</font></b><b><font color="#3333FF"></font></b>
<p><b><font color="#3333FF">Do we have to create a bridge between wlan0
and wlan0wds0 for the two STAs to communicate ?</font></b>
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<p>> 2. If we create a WDS link, it it possible to forward the data from
one BSS to the other 'without' creating
<br>> a bridge between WDS link and WLAN link ?
<p>What do you mean be "forward"? You can use IP routing over WDS, if that
<br>is what you want. In that case there would not be a bridge with those
<br>devices.
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<br>Jouni Malinen
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