[Bridge] [RFC] Do not activate promiscuous mode on wlan interfaces for bridging.

Johannes Berg johannes at sipsolutions.net
Thu Jun 12 11:44:10 PDT 2008


On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 11:34 -0700, Luis Carlos Cobo wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 20:20 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > Is this a mac80211 driver? When are you activating promisc?
> 
> Yes, libertastf (adaptation of the libertas driver to use a thin
> firmware and mac80211), you can check it out at 
> 
> git://dev.laptop.org/users/javier/libertastf.git
> 
> Still want to polish it a bit before submitting.
> 
> Promiscuous mode is being activated when attaching the interface to a
> bridge, in the lines included in the patch on the first mail in the
> thread.

But in response to what mac80211 command are you sending the promisc
mode to the hw?

johannes
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