wpa_supplicant in bridge mode

[Jouni Malinen]

On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 07:39:58PM +0800, cathy wrote:

>  I need to porting wpa_supplicant with madwifi driver in Bridge Mode. 

> wpa_s->l2 = l2_packet_init(wpa_s->ifname, ETH_P_ALL,
> wpa_supplicant_rx_eapol, wpa_s); --> changed -->This can receive packet from
> AP

And it will receive lots of other packets, too, and as such, it would
consume quite a bit of CPU.

> But...wpa_supplicant does not work well. 

Well, no. If ifname is br0, all the driver ioctls fail..

One way of working arund this is to open two l2_packet sockets. One for
wpa_s->ifname (e.g., ath0) and another one for bridge. wpa_s->ifname
must be pointing to the real wlan device, but EAPOL frames will be
received from the bridge interface.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA