bridging wireless station

[David Cornejo]

I have an existing AP that I have no control over (assume it doesn't
support WDS) sitting on a clinic LAN.  I have a second LAN that I need
to bridge to the clinic LAN through a client wireless device.  I had
done this about a year ago using vtun (via an 'ethernet' tunnel), but
then I had some control over the AP.

thanks,
dave c

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Sam Leffler <sam at freebsd.org> wrote:
> David Cornejo wrote:
>>
>> hi,
>>
>> i would like to bridge a wireless client to ethernet (in 8-CURRENT) -
>> the last bug in the if_bridge man page says this is a no-no.
>>
>> the question is whether this could be worked around - don't need the
>> highest performance, so maybe netgraph or even a userland daemon would
>> work.  i don't have any ability to do anything at the access point end
>> so some of the tunneling protocols are out
>>
>> any thoughts are appreciated,
>>
>>
>
> The man page is out of date; HEAD has WDS support now so you can bridge
> traffic that's 4-address encapsulated.  You might try to be more clear what
> you're trying to setup.
>
>   Sam
>
>