wpa_supplicant with madwifi using bridge

[Joel Lindsay]

Jouni,

Can you explain this statement?

"Though, it should still be kept in mind that IEEE 802.11
is allowing clients to send out frames only with their own address as
the source address so normal layer 2 bridging does not work for data
frames."

How does wpa_supplicant work when the interface is part of the bridge?  Can
it still act transparent, or only as a proxy/arp?

Thanks,

Joel

-----Original Message-----
From: hostap-bounces+joel=waveteq.com at shmoo.com
[mailto:hostap-bounces+joel=waveteq.com at shmoo.com] On Behalf Of Jouni
Malinen
Sent: May 8, 2007 7:07 PM
To: hostap at shmoo.com
Subject: Re: wpa_supplicant with madwifi using bridge

On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 01:47:19PM -0700, Joel Lindsay wrote:

> I am using madwifi wireless drivers and wpa_supplicant on a bridged 
> interface.  I cannot connect to the access point while the ath0 is on the 
> bridge using wpa_supplicant.  As soon as I remove the ath0 from the bridge

> wpa_supplicant connects perfectly, and then I can add ath0 back to the 
> bridge again.

> It looks like this might have been fixed in latest version, but I am using

> 0.4.9 and would require a lot of work to change.  Is there work around or 
> something to fix this?

Updating to 0.5.7 would be the easiest solution for this, but if this is
not feasible for some reason, you could try to backport the support for
-b argument, i.e., the following two changes, into 0.5.x:

http://w1.fi/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=hostap.git;a=commitdiff;h=051807c9467c13730
d1611cc8ab55678fed738a7

http://w1.fi/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=hostap.git;a=commitdiff;h=89b6ea80cf6d07317
6e72ec56f5e364a0bef5d45

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA
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