Re: [crossbow-discuss] VNICs and wireless NICs

On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 06:18:30AM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> I'm not sure why you have to restrict the devices to DL_ETHER only.
> I think you can allow DL_WIFI devices if-and-only-if the device is
> STA/client mode.

I don't understand what you said, perhaps because I don't know what
"STA/client" mode is :-/

When the device is in "client" mode (is that the same as
"STA/client"?) it will only transmit packets with one source MAC
address. In that mode we can't use it for MAC address based VNICs
(because we need to transmit packets with more than one source MAC
address).

Perhaps it's possible to kick the device into something other than
"client" mode, but I couldn't see a way to do this with the Solaris
drivers.

dme.