On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 11:16:54AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > 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." I think it is still true. What you can do is bridging between ethernet and wireless if you use host-ap mode. What you can't do is bridging ethernet-wireless --- wireless-ethernet. For that you will need WDS or something similar. > 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. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay_at_icomtek.csir.co.za / jhay_at_FreeBSD.orgReceived on Tue Sep 16 2003 - 10:35:20 UTC
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