FreeBSD wireless access point (under 5.2.1)

[Dick Davies]

* Jason Mann <jason-freebsdlists at freebsd.org> [1157 10:57]:
> Hi folks.
> 
> I am trying to set up a FreeBSD wireless access point as per the
> instructions in chapter 24.3 of the handbook.
> 
> I have successfully done this in the past using FreeBSD 4.8.
> 
> My network topology is illustrated here:
> http://b0rken.org/~jason/homenet.png
> 
> My FreeBSD machine has an xl0 wired interface, addressed as 192.168.0.1, and
> a wi0 wireless interface with no address assigned.
> 
> It is also running a DHCP server, and my wireless laptop successfully leases
> 192.168.0.20.
> 
> "options BRIDGE" is in my kernel and the following sysctls are set:
> net.link.ether.bridge.enable=1
> net.link.ether.bridge.config=wi0,xl0
> net.inet.ip.forwarding=1
> 
> 
> After following the instructions to the letter, I am having the following
> problems:
> 
> 1. My wireless laptop can not ping the FreeBSD machine itself.
> 
> 2. Hosts on my wired network can not ping the wireless laptop, even though
> the wireless laptop CAN ping hosts on my wired network.

I could be wrong, but you'd expect that if you are bridging. That's a layer 2
thing (below IP).
 
> The fact that my laptop can ping the wired hosts proves to me that there is
> no configuration issues with wi0 on the FreeBSD machine.

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