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Hi Jouni,<br>
Could you please elaborate more on how does the Prism driver bridges the
frame between wireless and wired network. What little I know about bridge
code in linux kernel is that, one bridge port is mapped to one physical interface.
In other words, one bridge port has one MAC entry in the FDB. This is perfectly
all right with the Ethernet interface. But the wireless interface will have
more than one station (MAC) associated with it. In this case what happens
to the FDB in linux bridging section? Does Prism driver takes care of this
aspect?<br>
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Correct me if I am wrong.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Jeetendra<br>
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Jouni Malinen wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 11:38:04AM +0530, Peyush Agarwal wrote:
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<pre wrap="">1. Is the fwdng for the "Data frames" in hostap done at the driver level OR the firmware itself does this
without passing the frames to the driver ?
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Host AP driver bridges frames between associated stations and Linux
kernel bridge code (if used) bridges between wireless and wired (or
other wireless) interfaces.
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<pre wrap="">2. If we create a WDS link, it it possible to forward the data from one BSS to the other 'without' creating
a bridge between WDS link and WLAN link ?
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What do you mean be "forward"? You can use IP routing over WDS, if that
is what you want. In that case there would not be a bridge with those
devices.
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