Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:07:10 -0800 From: "Adrian Chadd" <adrian.chadd@gmail.com> To: "Mark Dixon" <mnd999@gmail.com>, "freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org" <freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Bridge wired / wireless without hosting the network - is this possible Message-ID: <4f458339.6922440a.3e3e.ffffb992@mx.google.com> In-Reply-To: <858DD3DB-1E0A-4CBE-8B49-2545FCB5FEE5@gmail.com>
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The problem is the source mac address. When bridging, the source mac is the bridge if, not the ether/wifi mac. Either you need to tell if-bridge to use the ethernet mac address and hooe= that works, or we need to do something nasty with mac address translation.= WDS would let you tunnel the bridge mac over wifi, but that's a whole othe= r issue.. Adrian Sent from my Palm Pre on AT&T On Feb 22, 2012 2:38 PM, Mark Dixon <mnd999@gmail.com> wrote:=20 Hi all, Apologies if this has come up before but I can't see anything with a quick= google. I also tried freebsd-questions but nobody seemed to know there. What I want to do is setup a bridge between my wireless network and a wired= one. Hostap I hear everyone cry but I don't think that will work because= I don't want to create a wireless network - I want to join an existing on= e because this box won't be turned on all the time. I also need the bridgin= g desktop to have a DHCP acquired IP because it want to have internet acces= s (I mainly use it for Scala dev). Essentially, the network looks like this: [Internet Router w/ DHCP] -----wired--[Switch] ---wired---[Airport Express]= ******wireless******[Desktop w/Freebsd9]-------wired-----[ReadyNAS] What I want to do is have the freebsd (dual boot wi/ Windows) desktop bridg= e to the readyNAS when it's turned on via the wireless LAN so that I can ac= cess files on it. Unfortunately I can't connect the readyNAS to the switch= because the switch is in the living room and the readyNAS is too noisy. Wh= en the desktop is running Windows 7 this is dead easy, but I can't figure= out how to do it under FreeBSD. Any ideas? Thanks, Mark
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