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Subject: Re: Wireless Services
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> Greetings All.
> 
> I am new to FreeBSD, as well a this list (obviously :), and I have searched
> the relevant archives at FreeBSD, with little information being found on
> using FreeBSD in a wireless setup, so if there is another place I should
> look, please let me know.
> 
> We want to setup  a box as a wireless bridge to our ethernet for a
                                        ^^^^^^
> point-to-multipoint system as opposed to buying a proprietary bridge.  Any
> comments/thoughts would be appreciated or pointers to other resources.

Your not going to make a ``bridge'' out of FreeBSD, unless you want
to write your own bridging code (you have to run the interfaces in
promiscous mode, collect MAC addresses and implement spanning tree
or some other bridge forwarding code).

You could make a wireless ``router'' out of FreeBSD very easily,
I have had fairly good luck with the AT&T/Lucent Wavelan cards and 
FreeBSD as a router (the multicast code in the if_wl.c driver does
not seem to be up to snuff as I had to convert OSPF/multicast to
OSPF/nonbroadcast to make it work right.)  But other than that snag
it seems to be working quite well.

> Sorry if this has been discussed already in detail, I just could not find
> it in the archives.

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