From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Jul 23 8: 0:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B26E37B400; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 08:00:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palomar.yi.org (dsl-64-34-174-133.telocity.com [64.34.174.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 557B643E4A; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 08:00:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from erich@ucsd.edu) Received: from ucsd.edu (soledad [192.168.123.110]) by palomar.yi.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6NEw73L065268; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 07:58:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from erich@ucsd.edu) Message-ID: <3D3D6F67.5010508@ucsd.edu> Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 07:59:51 -0700 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Eric_Hedstr=F6m?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020617 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Erik_Paulsen_Sk=E5lerud?= Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (Retry) Bridging a wi-device with a LAN-adapter References: <002401c23245$1ced2130$0100a8c0@erikpc> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi Erik, Assuming the wi(4) page is correct when it says Prism only, that rules out your Orinoco card in any case. Eric Erik Paulsen Skålerud wrote: > Hello. I'm a little confused here. > I want to bridge my wireless card (Orinoco/Lucent Silver 11mbit) with my > LAN-adapter (fxp0). > > When I read the wi(4), allmost at the end of the configuration examples it > says: > > Create a host-based wireless bridge to fxp0 (Prism only): > Add BRIDGE to the kernel config. > # ifconfig wi0 inet up ssid my_ap mediaopt hostap > # sysctl net.link.ether.bridge=1 > # sysctl net.link.ether.bridge_cfg="wi0 fxp0" > # sysctl net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 > This will give you approximately the same functionality as an access > point. > > And, when I read the bridge(4) manual page, it says: > > Bridging requires interfaces to be put in promiscuous mode, and > transmit > packets with Ethernet source addresses. Some interfaces (e.g. wi(4)) > do > not support this functionality. Also, bridging is not compatible with > interfaces which use hardware loopback, because there is no way to tell > locally generated packets from externally generated ones. > > So. Where do I stand? Can it do bridging in FreeBSD or not? I tried to make > it work, both in FreeBSD and Windows XP (yes, I know.) without any results. > > While searching on mailinglists, I see several people saying that you need a > binary firmware wich costs money so that the cards can work with bridging.. > the reason would be that the manufactors of these chipsets wants to make > money on selling licenses to companies who want an AP. > > I've also heard a rumour that ng_bridge(4)/netgraph can do bridging with > wi(4)-devices. Is this true? > > Thanks for all help, Erik. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message