Re: [Madwifi-users] Re: Multiple MAC addresses

[Ben G. <gr...@ca...>]

Alfred Arnold wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
>>The mask, by default, seems to be all FF's.
> 
> 
> Correct, which means that the MAC will ACK packets only for the configured
> address itself.
> 
> 
>>I don't see any reason why
>>we couldn't mask out the low 6-7 bits to create a small range of MACs
>>for our virtual interfaces.  It's unlikely that someone will be randomly
>>sending pkts to MAC addresses so I would expect few 'side-effects'.
> 
> 
> That's what MadWifi is doing for the VAP support.  If you're satisfied
> with that, it's okay, but the initial posting sounded like you wanted
> a couple of arbitrary addresses...

I did..but I can live with arbitrary addresses within a narrow range
easily enough.

Is there any reason that the madwifi driver currently mucks with byte-0
of the MAC instead of perhaps byte-5?

Thanks,
Ben

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