Return-path: Received: from xc.sipsolutions.net ([83.246.72.84]:55164 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753888AbZF2QAp (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:00:45 -0400 Subject: Re: Repeater Bridge Mode with ar9170? From: Johannes Berg To: Jon Loeliger Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" In-Reply-To: <1246289993.15012.10.camel@jdl-desktop> References: <1245861185.13356.2.camel@jdl-desktop> <1245881310.13356.10.camel@jdl-desktop> <1246278355.4585.3.camel@johannes.local> <1246289993.15012.10.camel@jdl-desktop> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-UBPGXzQLPKPfoyBwJp+1" Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:00:41 +0200 Message-Id: <1246291242.4585.30.camel@johannes.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-UBPGXzQLPKPfoyBwJp+1 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 10:39 -0500, Jon Loeliger wrote: > I think I need to do this strictly from a client/station perspective. > The only AP in this picture would be the "upstream" AP to which my > client is associated. We shouldn't be changing any code running on > those APs at all. Right. Still though, an AP implementing it wouldn't seem to be compliant, so I would have guessed that APs don't implement this. > Which leads to me trying to figure out how the client is able to > know what the correct "MAC level NAT address" needs to be to > when it converts the 802.11 header to the 802.3 header. Doesn't > the upstream AP have to have already sent you 4-address frames > for this to work? Or will it respond with a 4-address frame if > it is sent a 4-address frame from the station? No idea. Nothing of this is specified in 802.11 or anywhere else, so it's all implementation dependent hacks. johannes --=-UBPGXzQLPKPfoyBwJp+1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAABAgAGBQJKSOUmAAoJEODzc/N7+QmaiaQP/2kF7hvEmlkZXSWIfd6GifSI kHTeJAYinEagxCDb5Yk+WOT2QuvWQtaF4oKhrM5ovTJLPPeAptNAipA9w+WEUMec zmOlVylqTjZHfXXUiWQKKtgq1GTYNOMpMLTPnsklFcSEjRWuxcsCIWIcEvprt4GN hDBkXBnpKN3RWXFXJW2yL82++ZyY15Mw0ddG53E7zxqh95cPD1RMm4ij5fJ0+845 1yX4HVs4elzm2PdskuqpqM3GTHzYQuRb8nOZw0X3vpz76PGwmbvuMUHxUs9OU8KK GfhIs2Zf6a2Q7NTCy+Ui+uukRix/6Yen00aYw2CfZI7YzWIlI9Ed/0pYX4Xk3gJY rCigLxAx9CFns+I9qCqYtNCZoaKjJzS6jbyC9irfTOI3k+tO1UTXrpV3xtbSNixL DFfMET6Pe3SbDGxeI340lp+LxLuMPIG7GXNE3zIcoKHIuy5SDFj6faYZDMxEQh7g ffqtYRJQQQxdOlNQ2gaf2cz1sRe6TaladbJKLCPc+ixWL9v8sLM497DvfPOBMsPr FnM0CvdmEo3D2HYR37c2J9Fk2VfyGYPEMnLLSBwii7jAV2BeWOoP0NSC4OUpZJwt YTmZ4toDDxU+2KtsH/yYnKl/70qlt2CUUWlfMqAB5N2aRILGfM2/cpy66XiCQZ+f wkEpT6DoZ5aRS7lCrjRb =gnFw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-UBPGXzQLPKPfoyBwJp+1--