Andrew Thompson wrote:
On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 12:13:09PM -1000, David Cornejo wrote:
hi,
i would like to bridge a wireless client to ethernet (in 8-CURRENT) -
the last bug in the if_bridge man page says this is a no-no.
The bridge man page needs to be updated as its possible to do this now.
the question is whether this could be worked around - don't need the
highest performance, so maybe netgraph or even a userland daemon would
work. i don't have any ability to do anything at the access point end
so some of the tunneling protocols are out
The system supports wdslegacy and dwds modes. lecacy takes a static
bssid address to forward the traffic to, this mode can only be encrypted
with wep.
dwds is a unique feature where the card connects as a standard station
(with any crypto, such as wpa), and then is set into wds mode. This
isnt hooked into the system scripts at all and needs to be finished off.
Have a look at tools/tools/net80211/scripts/setup.wds* and try some
scenarios out.
A nit: dwds probably needs to be integrated with hostapd as there's some
work involved that's best in a long-running application and I can't
imagine anyone using it w/o some form of security. Having hostapd
handle this would also simplify configuration.
The integration work is straightforward and would be a good project for
someone trying to learn about the wireless facilities.
Sam
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