SUCCESS...at least at 40-bit WEP, which is good enough, it's not like getting up higher will make that much of a difference. Thanks for the tips, still puzzled why two cards in the same system can't be on the same subnet.
thanks for the help. --- "Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 26 October 2004 17:38, scott renna wrote: > > ok, well this system has a 3com, xl0 holding an ip > of > > 192.168.2.150 > > Does this mean that I need to have each interface > > having an IP on a different subnet? > > maybe I could change the mask on the xl0 to > > 255.255.248.0 and it might work? > Nope, that won't help. > > > I wanted to have the wireless card on the same > subnet > > as the rest of the LAN and keep the wired card up > and > > running just for testing before permanently > migrating > > to this wireless card(i'm using encrypted > protocols > > locally so wep weaknesses should not be an issue). > > > > is there a way to have both cards be on the same > > subnet and have the same subnet mask? > Nope. > If you would do that, FreeBSD wouldn't know on what > interface it should send > packets destined for a PC on that subnet. (That's > why ifconfig refuses to set > the ip address). > > If you want to be able to switch between LAN and > WLAN, you'll have to turn off > one of the interfaces... > If you want to run over WLAN, type : > ifconfig xl0 down > ifconfig ath0 192.168.2.150 etc etc etc... > > If you want to switch back to LAN, type : > ifconfig ath0 down > ifconfig xl0 up > > You can assign the same ip address to multiple > interfaces, but you can only > have one of the "up" at a time. > > good luck, > Daan > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"