thank you - this was helpful. One last question - when you say that
bridging cannot work with wi cards because they do not support promiscuous
transmission, this makes me wonder two things:
1. Do you mean the wi driver does not support this, or you mean the actual
physical card itself is limited in this way
2. I know that there are two major firmware differences between "old" lucent
cards and "new" lucent cards, and that is that the old ones can be
_actually_ set to SSID of "" and then pick up base station in range. Is it
possible that (if the answer to #1 above is "it's a hardware problem") that
the old revision cards are better at this, or are they all like this ?
thanks a lot. I was actually _only_ interested in just plain old options
BRIDGE bridging, and not being a virtual AP (so far).
>Julian Elischer wrote:
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>>bridging is not a function of it being a pc-card..
>
>
>This is true, particularly with netgraph bridging.
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>>actually bridging may already work with wi cards
>>also netgraph bridgiung may also work...
>>
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>Bridging cannot work with wi cards, since they do not support
>promiscuous transmission (that is, sending frames with other than their
>own MAC address). Moreover, anyone seriously desiring to bridge wi cards
>very likely wants to actually do something that is more than bridging --
>they probably want to be an access point (ala Apple's "virtual airport"
>functionality). The difference between that and just bridging is that
>the wireless clients can see each other with certainty (that is, no
>hidden node issues) and they can turn on power saving (that is, having
>the receiver duty cycle be less than 100%).
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