Only works if I use particular command line options.

Jouni Malinen jkmaline at cc.hut.fi
Sun Dec 26 23:53:11 EST 2004


On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 02:23:49PM +1100, Nigel Cunningham wrote:

> My problem now is getting it to work in a bridge configuration. At the
> moment, my little test script looks like:

>                 brctl addbr br0
>                 ifconfig eth0 up
>                 ifconfig ath0 up
>                 ifconfig br0 up
>                 brctl addif br0 ath0
>                 brctl addif br0 eth0

This is not going to work.. IEEE 802.11 protocol does not support layer
2 bridging for a device that is in Managed mode because clients can only
transmit packets with their own address as the source MAC address.

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