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David Cornejo wrote:
> hi,
>
> i would like to bridge a wireless client to ethernet (in 8-CURRENT) -
> the last bug in the if_bridge man page says this is a no-no.
>
> the question is whether this could be worked around - don't need the
> highest performance, so maybe netgraph or even a userland daemon would
> work.  i don't have any ability to do anything at the access point end
> so some of the tunneling protocols are out
>
> any thoughts are appreciated,
>
>   
The man page is out of date; HEAD has WDS support now so you can bridge 
traffic that's 4-address encapsulated.  You might try to be more clear 
what you're trying to setup.

    Sam