help to bring up an MPP

[Chris Crawford]

On Wed 05/06/09  2:23 PM , Andrey Yurovsky andrey at cozybit.com sent:
> > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Chris Crawford <cpc5 at buffalo
> > .edu> wrote:
> > I'd like to see proof of the MPP functionality
> > that can bridge data frames to
> > another Ethernet network.
> 
> Ah, basically it can't.
> 
> > Ideally, I'd like to see an MPP bridge a
> > open80211s mesh with a wired network
> > that has access to the internet, such that I
> > could open up firefox and access Google.
>
> > In maybe a smaller version of the same test, I
> > just want to prove that data can
> > pass from a mesh side of an MPP to the wired
> > side of an MPP.
> >
> > I've brought up bridges as described in the
> > Howto, but I can't convince myself
> > that I can pass meaningful data from one side of
> > the bridge to the other...
> >
> > I'd love to work on a patch that would implement
> > this, if the functionality it
> > isn't there already. If that's the
> > case, maybe someone could point me in the
> > right direction in getting started...?
> > I've been poking around the code in
> > net/mac80211 quite a bit.
> >
> Right now, we lack support for proxied entities in the mesh nodes'
> forwarding tables.  So we just have the 6-address format and some
> other ground-work, which is not enough to pass traffic like you want.
> It would be great if someone implemented the rest of it.  Do you have
> access to the IEEE 802.11s draft?

No, unfortunately I don't have access to the IEEE 802.11s draft at this time. 
I've learned quite a bit about it, though, by extrapolating information from
papers related to 802.11s, HWMP and secondary documents produced by 802.11 TG s.

Is it possible to help out implement proxied entities without access to the
draft?  Or, is there a way to get my hands on a copy of the draft without parting
with a lot of cash?

One more question...what can you do with just the existing support for 6-address
format?

-Chris