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Date:      Mon, 4 Jun 2001 22:49:11 -0500
From:      "Jim King" <jim@jimking.net>
To:        "Brooks Davis" <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, "Joe Clarke" <marcus@miami.edu>
Cc:        <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: netgraph bridge and Aironet
Message-ID:  <013401c0ed72$7bd623e0$980b8486@marble>
References:  <011b01c0ed6c$d01b8810$980b8486@marble> <Pine.OSF.4.31.0106042317160.3387-100000@jaguar.ir.miami.edu> <20010604204040.A8438@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>

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"Brooks Davis" <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> wrote:
>On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 11:18:31PM -0400, Joe Clarke wrote:
>> >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.
>
>IIRC, that's been fixed, but you can't send packets with another MAC
>address.

Not being able to send packets with another MAC address could explain what
I've been seeing.  I'll take another look.

(For the record, I'm using netgraph bridging, not bridge(4), but I'd guess
the promiscous mode comment still applies.)

Jim



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