Re: (Retry) Bridging a wi-device with a LAN-adapter

> In message: <[email protected]>
>             David J Duchscher <[email protected]> writes: 
> : I have been playing with bridging with wi driver (in hostap mode)
> : the last few days and have seen some interesting behavior.  For one,
> : performance falls through the floor.  This seem related to
> : promiscuous mode and maybe associated with hostap mode.  Performance
> : of ng_bridge and BRIDGE came out the same.  On ng_bridge, I turned
> : off promiscuous mode on the wi interface and things still worked.
> : Performance also went back up to pre bridging levels.  I have no
> : idea why and haven't had time to play more.
> 
> I was at a party tonight with Todd Miller, who lives in the area and
> did a lot of the OpenBSD hostap work.  He tells me that if you are in
> promiscuous mode, that hostap performance falls to heck (1Mbps), but
> if you take it out of promiscuous mode performance returns.  One of
> the changes in OpenBSD that I have on my to look at list is related to
> this.

You do realise that you don't need it in promiscious mode if you want
to do bridging? I do bridging with it (using netgraph), I just don't
put it in promiscious mode. I basically took the script
/usr/share/examples/netgraph/ether.bridge and hacked it to not put the
wi driver in promiscious mode.

John
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