Wireless Bridging

[Reynolds, Alfred]

Perhaps proxy ARP would be a better solution for you? 
You can also look at the kernel ethernet bridging patches, but they are
probably not what you need.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Jordan [mailto:jas at pcguru.com.au]
> Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2001 3:03 AM
> To: Wireless List
> Subject: Wireless Bridging
> 
> 
> I was having a bit of a quiet ponder on how to turn this IBM 
> Stinkpad I have sitting
> here doing not very much into an access point of sorts.
> 
> I've already been able to get it to route using the one 
> wireless card by doing some
> geeky magic with ip subnetting and a virtual interface.  It 
> works but tastes bad.
> 
> Then I remembered the bridge software - a quick dejagoogle 
> later, testing fails
> miserably because it sees the real interface and virtual 
> interface as having
> the same mac address.
> 
> Being a tad naive, I then tried to issue an "ifconfig ether 
> hw xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx"
> against the virtual interface with no luck.
> 
> Yes, I too thought that was the end of a possible winner.
> 
> Then I remembered VMWare and Plex86.  Somehow they both manage to 
> do "virtual" bridging.  So it does appear to be possible.  
> I'm not sure what 
> black arts are involved but at least I know it can be done.
> 
> Has anyone looked at this?  If not - hopefully there are some 
> users on this list 
> that may get an idea from my travels and could leverage off 
> the GPLed code in 
> Plex86 to help us all get our Orinoco cards to function as 
> bridges and therefore
> act as cheaper and feature-depleted AP's.
> 
> -- 
> cheers, jas
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