Re: CB3 functionality?

speaking of the CB3, has anyone found a good Ethernet client bridge with 
high power that is a worthy replacement to this?

tyler


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John McDermon" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; 
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Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 6:34 AM
Subject: CB3 functionality?


> Hi All,
> We're attempting to replace all the Engenius CB3s and various  Airports 
> and AP3s in our backbone with WRAP boards running pebble  linux with 200 
> mW senao cards.
>
> We've got the host AP config bridging to the ethernet interface just 
> fine. What we have not been able to get running is a WRAP board 
> functioning as a wireless bridge with the radio as a client of an 
> upstream AP -- that is hostap in managed mode.
>
> I found this thread on the hostap discussion board, but it seems to  lead 
> to a dead end.
>
> http://hostap.epitest.fi/hostap/2002-09/1825.html
>
> The statement "But still, a WLAN card in "Managed" mode can't be 
> bridged." doesn't ring completely true to me, since the WEP11 from 
> linksys and the CB3 from senao/engenius do this with prism based  radio 
> cards.
>
> I've found other online discussions that mention layer 2 bridging,  but 
> that's what we have running with hostap, but it doesn't work when  the 
> wireless interface is a client of another AP.
>
> Is there a set of drivers other than hostap that we should be using  or do 
> we need to do somethings with ebtables to set up MAC-NAT?
>
> TIA,
> --John
> VP La Canada Wireless
> http://www.lcwireless.org/
>
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