Wirless Client Isolation Issue

[heuristic]

Here's a new problem!

If you enable this function for added security (internet feed owner does not want clients to see each other or have access to his own wireless resources), in theory this protects your data from prying eyes of other users (assuming all your data is on wired connections).

The new wrinkle for us is that one of the clients has purchased a wireless printer, which he cannot see from his laptop, as we've enabled the isolation.

Question then is, can you create exceptions to the isolation? I can see this becoming a greater issue as more and more shared resources will become wireless - digital cameras, game units, etc.

Would it be possible Eric to consider this ? Thanks!

[Eric]

Unfortunately, no. At least in the case of broadcom wireless devices (e.g WRT54GL) the wireless driver is a binary, which is essentially impossible to change. Even in the case of atheros devices the madwifi idriver is a HUGE hunk of code and modifying it would be very, very tricky.

I'm only going to mess with the wireless drivers when I absolutely, HAVE to do so to get essential features working properly.

[heuristic]

Unfortunately, no. At least in the case of broadcom wireless devices (e.g WRT54GL) the wireless driver is a binary, which is essentially impossible to change. Even in the case of atheros devices the madwifi idriver is a HUGE hunk of code and modifying it would be very, very tricky.

I'm only going to mess with the wireless drivers when I absolutely, HAVE to do so to get essential features working properly.

Okay, we've left it disabled, so that everyone can see all their devices. Thanks for considering it all the same!