Subject: Re: [RFC] Do not activate promiscuous mode on wlan interfaces for
	bridging.
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, shemminger@linux-foundation.org,
	j@w1.fi, bridge@linux-foundation.org,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
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On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 11:53 -0700, Luis Carlos Cobo wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 20:44 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > But in response to what mac80211 command are you sending the promisc
> > mode to the hw?
>=20
> In the function associated to .configure_filter (struct ieee80211_ops)
> in the driver, when (*new_flags & (FIF_PROMISC_IN_BSS))

But it is a "real promisc" mode not restricted to the BSS? Maybe the
solution is to just not promote promisc-in-bss to real-promisc when AP
mode is active.

johannes

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