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Date:      Mon, 04 Jun 2001 23:18:31 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Joe Clarke <marcus@miami.edu>
To:        Jim King <jim@jimking.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: netgraph bridge and Aironet
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.4.31.0106042317160.3387-100000@jaguar.ir.miami.edu>
In-Reply-To: <011b01c0ed6c$d01b8810$980b8486@marble>

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From the bridge(4) manpage:

     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.

I do not believe FreeBSD is able to place the Aironet cards into
promiscuous mode.  Therefore, bridging will not work.

Joe Clarke


On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Jim King wrote:

> Should netgraph bridging work with Cisco Aironet NICs which use an(4)?  It
> seems to work bridging an Intel (fxp) and a DEC (de), but trying to bridge
> an Intel and an Aironet doesn't seem to work - the remote node on the
> Aironet side is able to get a DHCP lease across the bridge, but nothing
> after that works.  I can see packets coming into the Aironet with tcpdump,
> but I don't see them going out on the Intel side.
>
> I'm using ether.bridge from /usr/share/examples/netgraph, with
> BRIDGE_IFACES="an0 fxp0" and LOCAL_IFACE="fxp0" to get setup the bridge.
>
> Jim
>
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