CONFIG_IWLWIFI_BCAST_FILTERING: Enable broadcast filtering

General informations

The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_IWLWIFI_BCAST_FILTERING has multiple definitions:

Enable broadcast filtering found in drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/Kconfig

The configuration item CONFIG_IWLWIFI_BCAST_FILTERING:

• prompt: Enable broadcast filtering
• type: bool
• depends on: CONFIG_IWLMVM
• defined in drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 4.5–4.20, 5.0–5.16, 5.17-rc+HEAD

Help text

Say Y here to enable default bcast filtering configuration.

Enabling broadcast filtering will drop any incoming wireless broadcast frames, except some very specific predefined patterns (e.g. incoming arp requests).

If unsure, don't enable this option, as some programs might expect incoming broadcasts for their normal operations.

Enable broadcast filtering found in drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/Kconfig

The configuration item CONFIG_IWLWIFI_BCAST_FILTERING:

• prompt: Enable broadcast filtering
• type: bool
• depends on: CONFIG_IWLMVM
• defined in drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 3.15–3.19, 4.0–4.4

Help text

Say Y here to enable default bcast filtering configuration.

Enabling broadcast filtering will drop any incoming wireless broadcast frames, except some very specific predefined patterns (e.g. incoming arp requests).

If unsure, don't enable this option, as some programs might expect incoming broadcasts for their normal operations.

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