From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 1 0:22: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gizmo.internode.com.au (gizmo.internode.com.au [192.83.231.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E37A037B5A5 for ; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 00:22:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from newton@gizmo.internode.com.au) Received: (from newton@localhost) by gizmo.internode.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA48673; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 16:51:11 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from newton) Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 16:51:11 +0930 From: Mark Newton To: Chris Csanady Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu Subject: Re: Bridging problems.. (WaveLan related?) Message-ID: <20000701165111.A48648@internode.com.au> References: <200007010656.BAA06648@isua4.iastate.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <200007010656.BAA06648@isua4.iastate.edu> X-PGP-Key: http://www.on.net/~newton/pgpkey.txt Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 01:56:51AM -0500, Chris Csanady wrote: > It never fails.. I always post stuff just minutes too soon. > Anyways, it seems that the problem is with the WaveLan network. > In ad-hoc, or infrastructure mode, the card can only send > frames with its own mac address as the source. Apparrently, > the card needs to be set up as an access point (or something) > to do bridging. You can make it run as an access point... if and only if you're prepared to produce an 802.11 protocol suite to run in the FreeBSD kernel, because you won't be able to use the one in the card's firmware. Of course, if you want to do something as insane as that, I'm sure your efforts will be welcommed with open legs^H^H^H^Harms. Being able to replace an access point with a FreeBSD box which costs a third as much would be tres cool. This is particularly true in the case of the Aironet 802.11 gear, which has even worse restrictions wrt bridging and even more expensive access points. (FWIW: With the Aironet kit, when you place the card into "monitor mode" you can't transmit frames at all). - mark -- Mark Newton Email: newton@internode.com.au (W) Network Engineer Email: newton@atdot.dotat.org (H) Internode Systems Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82232999 "Network Man" - Anagram of "Mark Newton" Mobile: +61-416-202-223 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message