Data packet analysis - Between wireless & wireline networks

Jouni Malinen jkmaline
Tue Sep 9 17:56:32 PDT 2003


On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 12:11:55AM -0700, Bobby Sardana wrote:

> 1) HostAP driver (Managed mode)
> 2) brctl (bridge) utilities to bridge the 802.11 & wireline network

IEEE 802.11 does not allow a station in managed mode (i.e., client
associated with an AP) to bridge packets at layer 2. You can only do
this as an AP or using WDS links.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA




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