Return-path: Received: from xc.sipsolutions.net ([83.246.72.84]:41159 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754609AbZKQQoM (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:44:12 -0500 Subject: Re: [RFC] mac80211: disallow bridging managed/adhoc interfaces From: Johannes Berg To: Stephen Hemminger Cc: Michael Buesch , netdev , linux-wireless , Felix Fietkau In-Reply-To: <20091117083741.1b165274@nehalam> References: <1258465585.3682.7.camel@johannes.local> <200911171504.54170.mb@bu3sch.de> <1258466868.3682.13.camel@johannes.local> <20091117083741.1b165274@nehalam> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-ptwFEf4fyZay9gg7e8zo" Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:43:43 +0100 Message-ID: <1258476223.21197.0.camel@johannes.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-ptwFEf4fyZay9gg7e8zo Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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.=20 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. johannes --=-ptwFEf4fyZay9gg7e8zo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAABAgAGBQJLAtK7AAoJEODzc/N7+QmaKVMQAMj3N0Kfy3bCDMkK7itoK1Rw HDrkc7tiOfTzgdVD3xsUaZaZcqnsuJi7U7xp0XfwDtkqUGXjQgEzjTrC7cCqPkcE 7H/qeNCfrKIXzNKJF6Cni41U1J088s1ufFsa5PgoH8dJcET8xnys9wQ0jeXxwwFh BtOXaZngjy0KkP7K/yTVsTMdwAoa3NPg/2yzKRwl7YqDrRxInGeN8pRUEK2dpg0V qoqMkLJOoJEc4qvwo/3qxkgeiqIA38t0ib9LDT3lbDx+HK+XTG2p33lgvTwNOIFb hRiIITLcqTK4eY9Z/6PRCQTyhLYr7bkLgKe2BesGw6lFHH7VY/rJvA4UMJzQzx3w 8474UIId1/luY8gpC38Wuo4GcZO/NDgegeX9vsgczoTstq7mUBmfRUEuVeB5cHeu MVwRGvh6SjzbMkGSlKCHY/hv5cCYl5StxfJRtXIC68+SAuc01tD64WAk2HX9k+px jTVSZCh4054hpFnfzhoBHW46cSq96DOtbZ83Zltf7yNIuyou2mY2hsedH3qZ6poc L/XJjUiOuA10fEJji6YW9ZbEpJ0tqGxPsSD1DbCEdVxVwkTs7+c6P/ywF281aLF+ dbKfY7eyWrJ1++1SgyfUOsilwlTASjoa1gtKHIEmI2ba2/Q0Nw2Zjp8vVyAZdm91 AKM6RXZ8+m5uIbuObQVk =gPCk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-ptwFEf4fyZay9gg7e8zo--