From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 28 21:24:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from quack.kfu.com (quack.kfu.com [205.178.90.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70B6637B403 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 21:24:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nsayer@quack.kfu.com) Received: from morpheus.kfu.com (morpheus.kfu.com [3ffe:1200:301b:1:2d0:b7ff:fe3f:bdd0]) by quack.kfu.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f5T4OMa49975 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168 bits) verified OK); Thu, 28 Jun 2001 21:24:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nsayer@quack.kfu.com) Received: from quack.kfu.com (localhost [::1]) by morpheus.kfu.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f5T4OM711794; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 21:24:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nsayer@quack.kfu.com) Message-ID: <3B3C02F6.6090209@quack.kfu.com> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 21:24:22 -0700 From: Nick Sayer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386; en-US; rv:0.9.1) Gecko/20010613 X-Accept-Language: en, en-US, en-GB MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Julian Elischer , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bridging with pcmcia cards References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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