bridging wireless station

[Andrew Thompson]

On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 12:13:09PM -1000, David Cornejo wrote:
> hi,
> 
> i would like to bridge a wireless client to ethernet (in 8-CURRENT) -
> the last bug in the if_bridge man page says this is a no-no.

The bridge man page needs to be updated as its possible to do this now.

> the question is whether this could be worked around - don't need the
> highest performance, so maybe netgraph or even a userland daemon would
> work.  i don't have any ability to do anything at the access point end
> so some of the tunneling protocols are out

The system supports wdslegacy and dwds modes. lecacy takes a static
bssid address to forward the traffic to, this mode can only be encrypted
with wep.

dwds is a unique feature where the card connects as a standard station
(with any crypto, such as wpa), and then is set into wds mode.  This 
isnt hooked into the system scripts at all and needs to be finished off.

Have a look at tools/tools/net80211/scripts/setup.wds* and try some
scenarios out.


Andrew