Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 12:21:30 +0100 From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> To: Sten Daniel =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8rsdal?= <lists@wm-access.no> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org>, Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de> Subject: Re: How to use if_bridge Message-ID: <20060419112130.GE7542@uk.tiscali.com> In-Reply-To: <4444CA13.8000405@wm-access.no> References: <200604142048.20189.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20060414140709.20c51ebc@localhost> <200604151053.25089.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20060415115352.1ef82bb1@localhost> <20060415195147.GA54638@heff.fud.org.nz> <20060415232801.0dbbc8f4@localhost> <4444CA13.8000405@wm-access.no>
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On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 01:14:27PM +0200, Sten Daniel Srsdal wrote: > hostap should work, ad-hoc should work. by infrastructure you mean that > the card operates as a 'station'? then it shouldn't work (correctly) as > defined by the standard. commercial products tend to implement "mac-nat" I've seen this; a 'wireless bridge' is actually a masquerading router. See http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=5105 for some ARP and tcpdump capture which shows the device actually mangling the ARP responses. It does seem to work though (as long as you only want to bridge IP datagrams)
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