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From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To: Joe Clarke <marcus@miami.edu>
Cc: Jim King <jim@jimking.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: netgraph bridge and Aironet
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On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 11:18:31PM -0400, Joe Clarke wrote:
> >From the bridge(4) manpage:
>=20
>      Interfaces that cannot be put into promiscuous mode or that don't
> support sending packets with arbitrary Ethernet source addresses are not
> compatible with bridging.
>=20
> I do not believe FreeBSD is able to place the Aironet cards into
> promiscuous mode.  Therefore, bridging will not work.

IIRC, that's been fixed, but you can't send packets with another MAC
address.you can't send packets with another MAC address.you can't send
packets with another MAC address.you can't send packets with another MAC
address.

-- Brooks

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