From: Ronald P. <pij...@ds...> - 2004-03-21 19:42:17
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> Ok, yeah, this one is easy. IEEE 802.11 specs require that wireless > cards only transmit packets with a source MAC that is their own. You ca= n > ping your own machine because it's clever enough to deal with the packe= t > internally, but you can't ping the router because the packet never > leaves the card. Hmm... that explains the problem. I'll try with a cable... I do see the light on the wireless card blinking, though... > As of right now, the bridged net daemon does not support any wireless > cards. When I get some free time (I just got a job...) I'll be working > on a workaround that will allow the two machines two share the host MAC > and let the filtering happen at an IP level. This won't be perfect (dhc= p > will break for one of the two machines if you're trying to use it for > both) but it'll be better than nothing. OK. For now NAT is good enough, I'm not able to boot my Gentoo system yet= . When that happens the problem becomes a bit bigger... Thanks, Ronald. |