Re: wireless-to-wired bridging

2005-02-14 Thread Reid Linnemann
On 2/13/2005, "Lowell Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On a quick look, I think you might be on the right track. The >bridging code seems in a number of spots to be built specifically for >Ethernet. I have always maintained that bridging unlike media was a >hack bound for problems... > >You

Re: wireless-to-wired bridging

2005-02-14 Thread Reid Linnemann
Not so much a Microsoft thing as a general networking thing. I would like for netbios traffic to work correctly for windows file sharing/samba, as well as broadcast LAN traffic for gaming and the like. I _could_ alter bridge.c to always return a copy of the packet to the caller, but that would jus

Re: wireless-to-wired bridging

2005-02-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Reid Linnemann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm bridging the devices so that the wired and wireless nets will appear > to be on the same physical network to eachother. Well, yes, that's what bridging means. Why do you want that? [Is it a Microsoft thing?] > I think I was really tired when I

Re: wireless-to-wired bridging

2005-02-11 Thread Reid Linnemann
On 2/11/2005, "Lowell Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >"Reid Linnemann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I have a question that is more of a networking question than a BSD >> question, but I am hoping someone out there has faced this same dilemma >> before and has some advice: >> >> I have a

Re: wireless-to-wired bridging

2005-02-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Reid Linnemann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a question that is more of a networking question than a BSD > question, but I am hoping someone out there has faced this same dilemma > before and has some advice: > > I have a FreeBSD machine running -current that servers as a router for my >

Re: wireless-to-wired bridging

2005-02-10 Thread Hexren
RL> I have a question that is more of a networking question than a BSD RL> question, but I am hoping someone out there has faced this same dilemma RL> before and has some advice: RL> I have a FreeBSD machine running -current that servers as a router for my RL> home LAN, using nat. I recently toss

wireless-to-wired bridging

2005-02-10 Thread Reid Linnemann
I have a question that is more of a networking question than a BSD question, but I am hoping someone out there has faced this same dilemma before and has some advice: I have a FreeBSD machine running -current that servers as a router for my home LAN, using nat. I recently tossed in a DLink DWL-G5