Fwd of Data Frames.

[Jeetendra Kumar]

Hi Jouni,
Could you please elaborate more on  how does the Prism driver bridges 
the frame between wireless and wired network. What little I know about 
bridge code in linux kernel is that, one bridge port is mapped to one 
physical interface. In other words, one bridge port has one MAC entry in 
the FDB. This is perfectly all right with the Ethernet interface. But 
the wireless interface will have more than one station (MAC) associated 
with it. In this case what happens to the FDB in linux bridging section? 
Does Prism driver takes care of this aspect?

Correct me if I am wrong.

Thanks,
Jeetendra



Jouni Malinen wrote:

>On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 11:38:04AM +0530, Peyush Agarwal wrote:
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>>1. Is the fwdng for the "Data frames" in hostap done at the driver level  OR  the firmware itself does this
>>without passing the frames to the driver ?
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>Host AP driver bridges frames between associated stations and Linux
>kernel bridge code (if used) bridges between wireless and wired (or
>other wireless) interfaces.
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>>2. If we create a WDS link, it it possible to forward the data from one BSS to the other 'without' creating
>>a bridge between WDS link and WLAN link ?
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>What do you mean be "forward"? You can use IP routing over WDS, if that
>is what you want. In that case there would not be a bridge with those
>devices.
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