On 07/10/11 10:50, Daniel Hilst Selli wrote: > Hi people, I'm using brctl to create bridges for some qemu guests... > > I create a br0 with brctl addbr br0 > the I attach my wireless card to it with brctl addif br0 eth1 > > Then some times I get right ip with dhcpcd br0 (after doing 'ifconfig > br0 promisc up') > but some times I got an strange ip > The questions are > What the promisc means? > > I can't understand for really the bridge concepts .. I just know that > you attach > cards to it, but can't understand how it route things > > cheers
Hi Daniel, What instructions were you following that told you to use promiscuous mode on the wireless card? For normal operation, the card should (usually) be in managed mode. - Matt
