Re: no wireless interfaces?

[Joel Wiramu Pauling <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Because 802.11a/b/g/n does odd things with mac headers which make
bridging them sometimes not work as expected.

On 30 April 2011 04:33, Joe Harvell <joe.harvell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I tried to bridge a wireless interface to a wired Ethernet interface,
> and it failed with "Operation not supported."
>
> Looking at the kernel code, it seems like this is intentional. ÂI
> noticed the following in br_add_if:
>
> Â Â Â Â/* No bridging devices that dislike that (e.g. wireless) */
> Â Â Â Âif (dev->priv_flags & IFF_DONT_BRIDGE)
> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Âreturn -EOPNOTSUPP;
>
> I'm curious to know why this is not supported.
>
> ---
> Joe
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