From owner-freebsd-net Wed Dec 5 15:42:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB9BB37B417 for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 15:42:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id fB5Nfxk27983; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 15:41:59 -0800 Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 15:41:59 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: David Gilbert Cc: Freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netgraph bridge works on fxp0, fails on wi0 Message-ID: <20011205154159.B25312@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <15374.40564.147991.647586@trooper.velocet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Pd0ReVV5GZGQvF3a" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15374.40564.147991.647586@trooper.velocet.net>; from dgilbert@velocet.ca on Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 05:23:48PM -0500 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 --Pd0ReVV5GZGQvF3a Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. >=20 > However, we all just got new wireless network cards, and I was > surprised to discover that wi0 didn't work in this configuration. Bridging requires that you be able to send packets with the source MAC address set to the origionating station. Cards supported by the wi card do not allow this so bridging doesn't work. There does exist a driver to make this work, but it is not publicly avaiable and would be binary only if it were as it requires special firmware. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --Pd0ReVV5GZGQvF3a Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8DrDGXY6L6fI4GtQRAhXRAJ9YqKd3bI2v5JPPft5KYVnsSy5D8gCgn3PF 7quxyR+pbSN5E7zvWWFc/zs= =tOmW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Pd0ReVV5GZGQvF3a-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message