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Subject: Re: atheros (ath) driver bridging
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> I think what he meant was that at on state was known (I don't know the
> current state) that as the wi could not be but in promiscuous mode it
> could not be used for bridging..  Bridging requires promiscuous mode
> (or some very tricky proxy-arp stuff).

You can put wi (and ath) in promiscuous mode.  The bridge manual page is
wrong and I will fix it.

	Sam