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Date:      Tue, 26 Jun 2001 13:39:51 -0500
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@sneakerz.org>
To:        Joesh Juphland <part_lion@hotmail.com>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bridging with pcmcia cards
Message-ID:  <20010626133951.N64836@sneakerz.org>
In-Reply-To: <F162IBbT34IrPzq0sss0001adf6@hotmail.com>; from part_lion@hotmail.com on Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 12:30:30PM -0600
References:  <F162IBbT34IrPzq0sss0001adf6@hotmail.com>

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* Joesh Juphland <part_lion@hotmail.com> [010626 13:30] wrote:
> 
> Recently on this list someone mentioned that you cannot bridge with the 'wi' 
> driver.  This interests me and I have some questions:
> 
> (I am running strictly 4.3-RELEASE, btw)
> 
> 1. is this just temporary - or will we _never_ be able to bridge with 'wi'  
> ?
> 
> 2. can I bridge with 'an' (cisco aironet cards) ?
> 
> 3. can I bridge between two 'ep' cards (3com pcmcia)  ?
> 
> 4. Finally, if the answer to #2 was 'yes', can I bridge between ep0 and an0 
> ?
> 
> I am just trying to figure out if the difficulties with 'wi' bridging are an 
> odd, isolated case, or if bridging on pcmcia cards is, in general, 
> difficult.

Ethernet bridging should work, however we can't the wireless bridging
trick where you can wander around from access point to access point
and be connected properly.

-Alfred

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