kernel driver removals

[Javier Cardona]

On 1/25/07, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
> Just thinking off the top of my head, but we may need to NAT because the
> AP isn't going to understand the 4-address 802.11s frame format the mesh
> uses, which is why we have to NAT.
> (...)
>
> I may be completely wrong here; Javier?

You are completely right.  Since early in the project we had the
requirement that Mesh Portals work with standard (non-WDS) APs.  Of
all the design alternatives that were considered, doing NAT seemed to
be the lesser evil.

On 1/25/07, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 23:40 +0800, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > Of course, that would require fixing Ethernet multicast on the mesh :)
>
> Which is pretty high on Javier's list.

Make it *wish* list.  Next week we'll decide whether Marvell or
cozybit will own that task.

Javier