WDS links & P2P mode?

[Mike Saywell]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 08:23:19PM -0800, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> WDS links need to support sending arbitrary Ethernet frame over the
> link. I haven't really used point-to-point type of interfaces during
> last N+1 years, so could you please give a bit more detailed example
> configuration of what you would like to do and why that needs
> point-to-point interface? You can assign the same IP address in multiple
> interfaces and then add suitable routing entries.
> 

Basically using by point-to-point mode we could save some addresses and
make auto-configuration of the WDS links much simpler :)

Since we're not planning to use bridging we have to dedicate a /30 subnet
to each p2p link.  Whilst it's possible to add the same IP used on wlan0
to e.g. wlan0wds0 and then add a host route for neighbouring router it's
a bit of a cludge and Zebra seems to fall over using this configuration
(perhaps that's a bug with zebra though!).

In the case when a WDS link is really a point-to-point between 2 routers
it would seem kinda sensible for it to run in point-to-point mode :)

Cheers,

Mike