Re: wi in hostap mode causes panic near linksys router

"M. Warner Losh" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In message: <[email protected]>
            Chip Marshall <[email protected]> writes:
: On January 11, 2003, M. Warner Losh sent me the following:
: > :   /sbin/sysctl net.link.ether.bridge_cfg="wi0 fxp0"
: > :   /sbin/sysctl net.link.ether.ipfw=1
: > :   /sbin/sysctl net.link.ether.bridge_ipfw=1
: > :   /sbin/sysctl net.link.ether.bridge=1
: > 
: > I've not done bridging things with ipfw and bridge_ipfw.  I've onlt
: > done bridge=1.
: 
: The bridge manpage seems to suggest that it won't work with wi, is
: this just out of date, or am I misreading it?
: 
:   Bridging requires interfaces to be put in promiscuous mode, and
:   transmit packets with Ethernet source addresses. Some interfaces
:   (e.g.  wi(4)) do not support this functionality.

wi doesn't support bridging in promiscuous mode, but it does
support it in hostap mode, as far as I know.

Warner

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