From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 15 22:46:53 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 415B916A400 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:46:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from redchin@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.184]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A97813C44C for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:46:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from redchin@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k27so30925nfc for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:46:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=KcWMJlqRwV++5kUy+ePbe7IPqDd5XZj0yF1B+V+OQrjtN8EfzRvu0s1QR5XkoOvhZkqx50oWN/PAAMsWp4IJ61aYX0+ze9Kg+D0xyIqo+d5xIXvtfncDH1zalmm7kDrh8u/p+MEX0e43+Iw1mnbsFaZ2aYwmI23wJG0wmsUJE8w= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=L4b3bUcfywwNAQ5yQav/lLLgMXZKEYw0Mg4Xiz7bzgCDj2QKG2WwR4VmOmT6tfmJSGp/DVtHYvp2wpak3dCdTZ1HQne/pXYY5LHwYGqz6boD6Z7qoK2aKGFBK0JxTbWuuAFWuS4jaYns0QQSSY3SBhPfpLGFpK8cxAH13NTzGE8= Received: by 10.82.163.13 with SMTP id l13mr1721753bue.1173998810126; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:46:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.119.10 with HTTP; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:46:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1d3ed48c0703151546h52d98e42kd28547bb52168ca8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:46:50 -0700 From: "Kevin Downey" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <40405920703151411h688b55e0vf83dbf8338c0386b@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <40405920703131535p5a2a24fan39eb3d8c7cdce35a@mail.gmail.com> <1d3ed48c0703131606y58052fffw24a8f98e07eb4161@mail.gmail.com> <40405920703151411h688b55e0vf83dbf8338c0386b@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: Wireless Bridge in FreeBSD 6.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:46:53 -0000 On 3/15/07, Sung Park wrote: > How about EoIP tunnel to establish wireless bridge? Is it possible? How > about other tunnels? Do you have any suggestion to make it possible in > FreeBSD? > > Thank you > > On 3/13/07, Kevin Downey wrote: > > > > On 3/13/07, Sung Park wrote: > > > I'm having trouble to bridge two wireless card which is Atheros AR5213A > in > > > FreeBSD 6.1. I try to make transparent bridge in these two wireless > card. > > > > > > I compiled BRIDGE in kernel and I put > > > > > > net.link.ether.bridge=1 > > > net.link.ether.bridge_cfg=*ath0*,*ath1* > > > net.link.ether.bridge_ipfw=1 > > > > > > in sysctl.conf. > > > > > > Following diagram is what I did it. > > > > > > (192.168.0.1)Ath0----Ath0,Ath1( 192.168.0.2)----Ath0(192.168.0.100) > > > > > > Left unit is wireless router. Middle unit is transparent bridge. Right > unit > > > is client. I set up like this. Ath0 of left unit is AP. Ath0 of middle > > > unit is Station. Ath1 of middle unit is AP. Ath0 of right unit is > Station. > > > I can ping from 192.168.0.100 to 192.168.0.2 but I can't ping from > > > 192.168.0.100 to 192.168.0.1. > > > > > > I tested wired LAN bridge with same configuration. It works well. > > > > > > Anyone has idea about this or has same problem. Please, help me. Any > kind of > > > information will save me. > > > > My understanding is that because of how the 802.11 is designed, this > > sort of setup is not possible using ethernet bridging code(if_bridge > > and friends) if you are using infrastructure mode and a-hoc mode is > > kind of slow. WDS may be waht you are looking for but I don't know if > > FreeBSD supports it yet.. > > I would read the manpage for the gif interface, it may be what you are looking for -- The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has occurred.