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Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 17:16:29 +0800
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Subject: Re: Bridging wired to STA interfaces.
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
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How do you propose handling the case where people will hook up >1 device?
Print out a very loud warning? :-)

I did something like this a while ago for a company and their first
request was exactly that - "Customer X now wants two devices in a
vehicle hooked up to the wireless, it doesn't work, what do we do?"


Adrian


On 3 August 2011 13:33, Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> wrote:
> We have some interest in being able to bridge wired systems to
> (virtual) STA interfaces, primarily for using third-party
> traffic generation tools over virtual stations.
>
> I was thinking of writing a sta-bridge module that mapped
> incoming packets on a wired interface to a STA with MAC
> that matched the source MAC of the packet. ?All packets
> received on the STA would be forwarded un-modified out
> the wired port.
>
> I think this would allow someone to create a STA interface
> with MAC matching a PC connected to the wired port and effectively
> have it be a transparent bridge between STA and PC.
>
> Has anyone attempted something like this before?
>
> Any interest in having this feature in the upstream kernel?
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
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> Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
> Candela Technologies Inc ?http://www.candelatech.com
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