From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Jan 13 20: 5:33 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 933CA37B405 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 20:05:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94F8143F43 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 20:05:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.6/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h0E45Q1e018885; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 21:05:26 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 21:05:15 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20030113.210515.25897244.imp@bsdimp.com> To: chip@chocobo.cx Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wi in hostap mode causes panic near linksys router From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20030112164138.GA31670@chocobo.cx> References: <001401c2b9b6$5a94c1c0$6511a8c0@benspiece> <20030111.204643.06072765.imp@bsdimp.com> <20030112164138.GA31670@chocobo.cx> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message: <20030112164138.GA31670@chocobo.cx> Chip Marshall writes: : On January 11, 2003, M. Warner Losh sent me the following: : > : /sbin/sysctl net.link.ether.bridge_cfg="wi0 fxp0" : > : /sbin/sysctl net.link.ether.ipfw=1 : > : /sbin/sysctl net.link.ether.bridge_ipfw=1 : > : /sbin/sysctl net.link.ether.bridge=1 : > : > I've not done bridging things with ipfw and bridge_ipfw. I've onlt : > done bridge=1. : : The bridge manpage seems to suggest that it won't work with wi, is : this just out of date, or am I misreading it? : : Bridging requires interfaces to be put in promiscuous mode, and : transmit packets with Ethernet source addresses. Some interfaces : (e.g. wi(4)) do not support this functionality. wi doesn't support bridging in promiscuous mode, but it does support it in hostap mode, as far as I know. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message