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Subject: Re: wireless-to-wired bridging
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On 2/13/2005, "Lowell Gilbert"
<freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote:

>On a quick look, I think you might be on the right track.  The
>bridging code seems in a number of spots to be built specifically for
>Ethernet.  I have always maintained that bridging unlike media was a
>hack bound for problems...
>
>You might have more success using dummynet for bridging rather than
>trying to fix things in the protocol stack.
>
>Good luck.
>--
>Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
>		http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/

Yeah, I can definitely see that. After a little more thinking and
grokking of the code I realized that my theory is (most likely) wrong. I
am stumped for now, but I'm going to try to solve the problem.