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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:04:20 -0800
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] mac80211: disallow bridging managed/adhoc interfaces
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On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:43:43 +0100
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 08:37 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 
> > But there are people bridging wireless, and hostap even has a mode for
> > that. 
> 
> But that's the AP side, which this patch doesn't attempt to prevent. It
> just makes no sense to bridge when connected to an AP or part of an
> IBSS.
> 

Then how does this work now? And will your change break it?

                             kvm1
                            /
     ====> wlan0  --- bridge-- kvm2
                            \
                             kvm3