Re: wi in hostap mode causes panic near linksys router
"M. Warner Losh" <[email protected]>
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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 : : The bridge manpage seems to suggest that it won't work with wi, is : this just out of date, or am I misreading it?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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message