This snippit from Agere's linux wlan driver readme should clear up wlan bridging. It applies to all 802.11/b cards.
5.4 Building a bridge or router Description: The Linux driver uses the Station Functions firmware programmed in Flash memory on the ORiNOCO PC Card. On an IEEE 802.11 Station you can not build a MAC-layer Transparent Bridge. This is not a restriction of ORiNOCO only; it is an architectural restriction of IEEE 802.11. As such it is specified in the 802.1D Bridge Standard (1998 Edition): A Bridge to an 02.11 LAN shall connect to an 802.11 Portal, which in turn connects to an 802.11 Distribution System. As the Distribution System is part of the AP (and not of the STA), you need an AP to build a Bridge. The major cause for this is the MAC-layer Acknowledgement. A Transparent Bridge will have to Ack frames destined for multiple destinations (everything that is not in the cell itself). An AP can do this; a STA can not; by definition. Action: It is possible to build a router using this driver. Hope it helps. Tony Toole ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 1:18 PM Subject: Re: [Bridge] wlan (prism) and 3com (3c589c) doesn't work > Ok, I'll try again. This is my network. > > (DHCP/10.0.0.1) > ISP 10baseT (WLan) > -------------------- Firewall/ ------------- Laptop with - - - - - - - - - Client > server bridging > > > > Should the clients gateway be 10.0.0.1 as it is when it is wired? I suppose the > answer is no since I do not need to assign an IP to the 'laptop with bridging'. > Have anyone managed to make it work with WLan and wired ethernet? > > Svend! > > > >>Should the default gateway on the client-pc's be the one that's connected to > >> the internet, or should it be the bride-pc? > > > > You are not clear, does the wlan card connected directly to internet ? > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bridge mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/mailman/listinfo/bridge > _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/mailman/listinfo/bridge
