Wanted: wireless network card

Patrick Cole z at amused.net
Thu Jun 27 01:25:02 EST 2002


Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 04:01:23PM +1000, David Gibson wrote:

[...]
> > Also, one of my wishlist is for orinoco drivers to
> > support bridging (I can do bridging with hostap).
> 
> Hmm.. right, you're not the first person to ask for it.  I'll have to
> find out what a driver needs to do to support bridging.

As I understand it the Lucent firmware directly prohibit TX of packets that
don't have the local MAC in them, preventing bridging from working. 

Can anyone confirm this?

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Patrick Cole <Patrick.Cole at anu.edu.au>
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