Wanted: wireless network card

[David Gibson]

On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 01:25:02AM +1000, Patrick Cole wrote:
> 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?

There seems to be some evidence of that, but I can't confirm it for
sure.  The situation may be different once we go to supplying the full
802.11 header to the firmware rather than letting the firmware convert
from an 802.3 header.  Or there may be another way around this
restriction.

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