Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:14:27 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sten_Daniel_S=F8rsdal?= <lists@wm-access.no> To: Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to use if_bridge Message-ID: <4444CA13.8000405@wm-access.no> In-Reply-To: <20060415232801.0dbbc8f4@localhost> References: <200604142048.20189.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20060414140709.20c51ebc@localhost> <200604151053.25089.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20060415115352.1ef82bb1@localhost> <20060415195147.GA54638@heff.fud.org.nz> <20060415232801.0dbbc8f4@localhost>
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Fabian Keil wrote: > The example section has the following sentence "Such a con- > figuration could be used to implement a simple 802.11-to-Ethernet bridg= e > (assuming the 802.11 interface is in ad-hoc mode)." >=20 > I don't get the meaning of the ad-hoc mode part. In my tests if_bridge > worked in hostap mode as well, but failed in infrastructure mode. Could= > you clarify if (or why not) bridging in infrastructure mode should work= ? hostap should work, ad-hoc should work. by infrastructure you mean that the card operates as a 'station'? then it shouldn't work (correctly) as defined by the standard. commercial products tend to implement "mac-nat" or just simple dumb passthrough (which requires support on the ap side and is very much like ad-hoc mode). you would want to look into WDS for a standard way of dealing with bridging on 802.11 --=20 Sten Daniel S=F8rsdal
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