Return-path: Received: from mail-gy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.160.174]:44674 "EHLO mail-gy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753279Ab1HKIsE convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Aug 2011 04:48:04 -0400 Received: by gya6 with SMTP id 6so1170704gya.19 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2011 01:48:03 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4E43816D.6080005@candelatech.com> References: <4E38DDB3.1030801@candelatech.com> <4E39EB52.1090401@candelatech.com> <4E43816D.6080005@candelatech.com> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:48:02 +0800 Message-ID: (sfid-20110811_104808_920045_F1069BE4) Subject: Re: Bridging wired to STA interfaces. From: Adrian Chadd To: Ben Greear Cc: Sam Leffler , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 11 August 2011 15:14, Ben Greear wrote: > I think I'll just force user to create an STA with matching MAC (for the > MAC of the PC/whatever to be bridged). ?Ath9k and ath5k can support at > least 128 stations, so that will be plenty for our uses... > > We saw some problems changing MAC on STA after they were created, but > it seems to be ok if we just create it with correct STA the first time, > and we'll try to figure out why changing MAC was acting weird as well. Oh wow, that's a cool use of multi-STA support. Now I want to get it working in FreeBSD. I think I may need to corner you sometime and sort out exactly how this works. Nice thinking Ben! Adrian