I am testing using two machines. They have identical software and hardware, kernel 2.6.16 and Atheros 5212.
One is configured as an AP and the other one as a STATION
They both have bridges defined and the wireless interfaces are inside the bridges. The AP only has one interface. The STATION has two interfaces: the wireless and a regular Ethernet. Here is the output of brctl show on both:
AP:
/>brctl show
bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces
br0 000a.0060b3071bb6 no wlan0
STA:
/>brctl show
bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces
br0 000a.0060b3071bb6 no wlan0
eth0
The wireless interfaces both have wds set to 1 or bridging would not work.
The bridge always acquires the mac address of the first interface you put in. Thus, packets initiated by either machine have the corresponding wireless mac address as the source address. This causes the driver to complaint on a scenario that is acceptable for every packet that goes out. This is the warning:
wlan0: received packet with own address as source address:
In this scenario, there should be no warning.
