From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 16 12:35:20 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F21A616A4B3 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 12:35:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za (zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CB5943F3F for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 12:35:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhay@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za) Received: from zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za (localhost [IPv6:::1]) h8GJYn5v076543; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 21:34:49 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from jhay@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h8GJYnig076542; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 21:34:49 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from jhay) Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 21:34:49 +0200 From: John Hay To: Julian Elischer Message-ID: <20030916193449.GA76069@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> References: <329513875.1063710581@melange.errno.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i cc: Sam Leffler cc: jesse@wingnet.net cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: atheros (ath) driver bridging X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 19:35:21 -0000 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@icomtek.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org