On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Rob Townley wrote: > changed mode from router to switch on 2 Linux and 2 WinXP nodes. > configured Linux bridging per the website and that worked for > hardwired ethernet over cat5. For the wifi wireless xp clients, i > didnt have any luck. Maybe i did something wrong, but it seems so > easy to create a bridge in xp. highlight 2 or more nics, right click > and choose bridge. Did it numerous tmes years ago, but not sure w > wifi. > > then came across this from intel. how did you bridge tinc to wifi > successfully? > > Intel promiscuous wifi does not work w bridging: > http://www.intel.com/support/wireless/wlan/sb/CS-025286.htm
Just bridging between a wifi interface in client mode (connected to an AP as a client) and another interface (nothing tinc related, the same goes for ethernet) does not work. An accesspoint accepts only packets from mac addresses that have registered with it before (association+authentication). Possible workarounds are things like mac-address-spoofing/replacing or proxy-arp, but thats a not so trivial setup. c'ya sven -- Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. - Ben F. _______________________________________________ tinc mailing list [email protected] http://www.tinc-vpn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinc
