Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 21:24:22 -0700 From: Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bridging with pcmcia cards Message-ID: <3B3C02F6.6090209@quack.kfu.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106261604020.85692-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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Julian Elischer wrote: > bridging is not a function of it being a pc-card.. This is true, particularly with netgraph bridging. > actually bridging may already work with wi cards > also netgraph bridgiung may also work... > Bridging cannot work with wi cards, since they do not support promiscuous transmission (that is, sending frames with other than their own MAC address). Moreover, anyone seriously desiring to bridge wi cards very likely wants to actually do something that is more than bridging -- they probably want to be an access point (ala Apple's "virtual airport" functionality). The difference between that and just bridging is that the wireless clients can see each other with certainty (that is, no hidden node issues) and they can turn on power saving (that is, having the receiver duty cycle be less than 100%). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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