From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jun 7 17:31:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.dellroad.org (adsl-63-194-81-26.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.194.81.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C928C37B405 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 17:31:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from archie@dellroad.org) Received: from arch20m.dellroad.org (arch20m.dellroad.org [10.1.1.20]) by InterJet.dellroad.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA61084; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 17:18:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from archie@localhost) by arch20m.dellroad.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f580I7N03436; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 17:18:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from archie) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <200106080018.f580I7N03436@arch20m.dellroad.org> Subject: Re: netgraph bridge and Aironet In-Reply-To: <013401c0ed72$7bd623e0$980b8486@marble> "from Jim King at Jun 4, 2001 10:49:11 pm" To: Jim King Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 17:18:07 -0700 (PDT) Cc: Brooks Davis , Joe Clarke , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL82 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jim King writes: > >> >From the bridge(4) manpage: > >> > >> Interfaces that cannot be put into promiscuous mode or that don't > >> support sending packets with arbitrary Ethernet source addresses are not > >> compatible with bridging. > >> > >> I do not believe FreeBSD is able to place the Aironet cards into > >> promiscuous mode. Therefore, bridging will not work. > > > >IIRC, that's been fixed, but you can't send packets with another MAC > >address. > > Not being able to send packets with another MAC address could explain what > I've been seeing. I'll take another look. > > (For the record, I'm using netgraph bridging, not bridge(4), but I'd guess > the promiscous mode comment still applies.) There's also the problem that in infrastructure mode, you can't hear any other node's traffic. -Archie __________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Packet Design * http://www.packetdesign.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message