From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 12 10: 8:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FFC537B402; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 10:08:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f0CI87x29903; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 10:08:07 -0800 Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 10:08:07 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Ana Romero Cc: Mobile FreeBSD , Questions FreeBSD Subject: Re: WaveLAN cards detected but not network Message-ID: <20010112100807.A20792@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from anar@ees2.oulu.fi on Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 04:35:12PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 04:35:12PM +0200, Ana Romero wrote: > I have a private network with a laptop with WaveLAN card installed and a > PC with two cards, WaveLAN card and Ethernet 3Com. In the PC both cards are > in the same network, WaveLAN card is joined to the network by IP-aliases. > The NIC is detected normally and I can ping my own IP Address > in the three cards. But when I try to ping to the other computer it prints > "host is down". You can't do this.[0] They must be on different networks. If the WaveLAN card were a normal Ethernet card, you could achieve this effect with bridging, but WaveLAN cards are configured such that they can not be used to bridge Ethernet networks. If you want a bridged wired and wireless network you must use an access point. -- Brooks [0] Actually, you might be able to implement a truly evil hack with ARP proxying if you only need IP traffic, but it would be ugly, fragile and a true pain in the ass. You're not likely to find anyone to help with implementing this system, but if with enough knowledge and thought it should be possible. -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message