working with client bridges

Brad Langhorst brad
Tue Mar 2 06:44:22 PST 2004


On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 01:16, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> Do you happen to know how this client bridge expects to receive these
> frames? If it acts as a standard IEEE 802.11 client that associates, it
> cannot really receive frames for other MAC addresses.. However, if it
> uses something like WDS, the frames could be used. Does this mode work
> with other APs? Do you have wireless sniffer logs that would show how
> the device works?
i don't really know how it works -
i guess it just snarfs up frames that have macs that it knows about on
the ethernet side

i do see is associate with hostap (with it's own mac) in the logs - i'm
willing to experiment do you have a suggestion for which program to use 
to diagnose what's going back and forth?

brad





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