From owner-freebsd-net Wed Dec 5 15:55:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from spitfire.velocet.net (spitfire.velocet.net [216.138.223.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B670937B417 for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 15:55:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from office.tor.velocet.net (trooper.velocet.net [216.138.242.2]) by spitfire.velocet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B817A44A9E5; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 18:55:20 -0500 (EST) Received: (from dgilbert@localhost) by office.tor.velocet.net (8.11.4/8.9.3) id fB5NtKT61131; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 18:55:20 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dgilbert) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15374.46056.247719.291738@trooper.velocet.net> Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 18:55:20 -0500 To: Brooks Davis Cc: David Gilbert , Freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netgraph bridge works on fxp0, fails on wi0 In-Reply-To: <20011205154159.B25312@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <15374.40564.147991.647586@trooper.velocet.net> <20011205154159.B25312@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.96 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >>>>> "Brooks" == Brooks Davis 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