Hello Mike, That helped, Thanks! even though it seems a litte odd to me :), especially because xl0 is the "main" network, and the wireless one is only an "addon" ...
up to now, i dont see any MAC-addr-toggle-warnings. Best Kai > > On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Kai Mosebach wrote: > > > Dear list, > > > > recently i tried to setup a wireless bridge onto my freebsd 5.2 server. > > > > i followed the instructions on the ath manpage and set the bridge up with > : > > > > ifconfig ath0 inet up <params> > > sysctl net.link.ether.bridge.enable=1 > > sysctl net.link.ether.bridge.config="ath0 xl0" > > sysctl net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 > > > > the ath interface has no ip adress, but xl0 has. > > I'm using a similar setup on 4.x (with wi in place of ath), and it works > reasonably well. The one difference is that I did assign an IP address to > the wireless interface, although I always communicate with the LAN IP > address. > > Note that one problem the FreeBSD arp code has (as of now) is that it > isn't really multi-interface aware; you'll see lots of messages on the > wireless client where it sees the lan IP moving back and forth between the > MAC addresses of the wireless and LAN cards. Is it possible that this > behavior is confusing your client somehow? > > > now i can ping all of my lan-clients from the wireless, excepting the > bridge > > itself. i saw some reports about problems in the bridge module of 4.x so i > > build my kernel with options BRIDGE, but no changes. > > I had problems with the module under 4.x, so I am using BRIDGE in the > kernel config as well. > > > the second problem is, that i have a DSL router on my cabled segment, which > is > > pingable from wireless, but setting it as default gw and DNS server on the > > wireless client is not working, internet access is not possible. > > > > any ideas ? > > > > best Kai > > Maybe the second problem is part of the first problem manifesting itself > in a different way. > > Mike "Silby" Silbersack > > > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
