On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 04:29:53AM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: > guys, > > You can't override set the outbound MAC address of a wireless station. > It associates with the MAC address of the card/vap/device. The AP > _will_ store that MAC address in its node table. > > When sending frames from a STA, the only available details are: > > * source address - STA MAC > * destination BSS - the destination BSS MAC address, ie which AP to send to > * destination address - the destnation MAC > > only in WDS (4-address) setups is there a fourth address, which is the > "actual original source MAC address". In this instance, the STA is > actually tunnelling traffic from other source MACs. > > I don't know who started that lagg hack, but let me just be really > really clear - if you try sending the source frames out a wifi > interface with a source MAC that isn't the STA mac, it won't work. By > design. If it does work - it's a fluke and it's not portable. > > What you really want is for the same IP to exist but only both > interfaces and have the source interface/MAC seamlessly change. > > There've been proposals in the past for the STA side code to "proxy > STA" a bunch of other MACs behind it - using 3 address frames( ie, not > WDS) but keeping state as to which IP traffic is going to which MAC > address. No, net80211 in our tree doesn't have that support. > > I hope that puts this all to rest. > > > > Adrian > -- cutted here ---------
Hi Adrian, Maybe I don't understand you, but this summarizes what I think I understood: Changing the wireless NIC's MAC is not possible. Only in some cases, but those cases are exceptions and shouldn't exist. I don't understand how this is pushing me further to solve my problem. As I mentioned I'm now changing the MAC of the wired NIC to that one of the wireless NIC. So your remarks don't apply to this situation, I think. Am I right? By the way: Do you think the configuration examples (in handbook and manpage) I provided earlier in this thread are misleading and should be changed? kaltheat _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
