Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 18:55:20 -0500 From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca>, Freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netgraph bridge works on fxp0, fails on wi0 Message-ID: <15374.46056.247719.291738@trooper.velocet.net> In-Reply-To: <20011205154159.B25312@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <15374.40564.147991.647586@trooper.velocet.net> <20011205154159.B25312@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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>>>>> "Brooks" == Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> writes: Brooks> On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 05:23:48PM -0500, David Gilbert wrote: >> The netgraph bridge setup for vmware works very well and I've been >> happy with it for some time running on my laptop. My old laptop >> had an ep0 pccard and my new laptop has a builtin (PCI-attached) >> fxp0. I have also had vmware work with an ed0 pccard. >> >> However, we all just got new wireless network cards, and I was >> surprised to discover that wi0 didn't work in this configuration. Brooks> Bridging requires that you be able to send packets with the Brooks> source MAC address set to the origionating station. Cards Brooks> supported by the wi card do not allow this so bridging doesn't Brooks> work. There does exist a driver to make this work, but it is Brooks> not publicly avaiable and would be binary only if it were as Brooks> it requires special firmware. Are there other wireless cards that allow this? Why is this feature turned off by these cards? Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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