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Not every IEEE 802.1 Ethernet frame can be converted to an IEEE 802.11 WiFi frame. To do that you would need some type of tunnel to the Ethernet fabric.
by rkeene2 5y ago
Not every IEEE 802.1 Ethernet frame can be converted to an IEEE 802.11 WiFi frame. To do that you would need some type of tunnel to the Ethernet fabric.
- icedchai 5y agoNo tunnel is needed. Just use a bridge interface.
- rkeene2 5y agoSince not all IEEE 802.1 Ethernet frames can be converted to IEEE 802.11 frames using the Linux bridging infrastructure isn't sufficient (even though it can do fancy things like bridge non-Ethernet and Ethernet interfaces; Like bridging PPP interfaces and IEEE 802.1 Interfaces). You genuinely need a tunnel if you want support all Ethernet functionality.
- icedchai 5y agoI'm highly skeptical that bridging is insufficient for most use cases. After all, most Linux-based access points are using standard bridging.
- rkeene2 5y agoIndeed that is true that for most cases WiFi can do the things users want. My note was that not everything you can do with Ethernet frames can be converted to WiFi frames. One such example is Ethernet multicast.