bridging wireless station

[Sam Leffler]

Without WDS you'll need to bridge/tunnel at a different layer.

	Sam

David Cornejo wrote:
> 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 The man page is out of date; HEAD has WDS support now so you can bridge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
>>
>>
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