Re: atheros (ath) driver bridging

From: Julian Elischer <julian_at_elischer.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:16:54 -0700 (PDT)
I'm not sure what I typed there but what I meant to say was....
"At one stage the wi driver could not be put in promiscuous mode and 
the bridging code required that. Most people still think this is true."

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Sam Leffler wrote:

> > I think what he meant was that at on state was known (I don't know the
> > current state) that as the wi could not be but in promiscuous mode it
> > could not be used for bridging..  Bridging requires promiscuous mode
> > (or some very tricky proxy-arp stuff).
> 
> You can put wi (and ath) in promiscuous mode.  The bridge manual page is
> wrong and I will fix it.
> 
> 	Sam
> 
> 
Received on Tue Sep 16 2003 - 09:16:58 UTC

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