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Date:      Thu, 7 Jun 2001 17:18:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
To:        Jim King <jim@jimking.net>
Cc:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, Joe Clarke <marcus@miami.edu>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: netgraph bridge and Aironet
Message-ID:  <200106080018.f580I7N03436@arch20m.dellroad.org>
In-Reply-To: <013401c0ed72$7bd623e0$980b8486@marble> "from Jim King at Jun 4, 2001 10:49:11 pm"

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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

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