Bridge wired / wireless without hosting the network - is this possible

[Adrian Chadd]

The problem is the source mac address.

When bridging, the source mac is the bridge if, not the ether/wifi mac.

Either you need to tell if-bridge to use the ethernet mac address and hooe that works, or we need to do something nasty with mac address translation. WDS would let you tunnel the bridge mac over wifi, but that's a whole other issue..


Adrian



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On Feb 22, 2012 2:38 PM, Mark Dixon <mnd999 at gmail.com> wrote: 

Hi all,



Apologies if this has come up before but I can't see anything with a quick google. I also tried freebsd-questions but nobody seemed to know there.



What I want to do is setup a bridge between my wireless network and a wired one. Hostap I hear everyone cry but I don't think that will work because I don't want to create a wireless network  - I want to join an existing one because this box won't be turned on all the time. I also need the bridging desktop to have a DHCP acquired IP because it want to have internet access (I mainly use it for Scala dev).



Essentially, the network looks like this:



[Internet Router w/ DHCP] -----wired--[Switch] ---wired---[Airport Express]******wireless******[Desktop w/Freebsd9]-------wired-----[ReadyNAS]



What I want to do is have the freebsd (dual boot wi/ Windows) desktop bridge to the readyNAS when it's turned on via the wireless LAN so that I can access files on it. Unfortunately I can't connect the readyNAS to the switch because the switch is in the living room and the readyNAS is too noisy. When the desktop is running Windows 7 this is dead easy, but I can't figure out how to do it under FreeBSD.



Any ideas?



Thanks,



Mark