Re: [coLinux-devel] WinPcap problems

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Ok I could be totally off base with this but wouldn't putting the card in
master mode bypass the mac address requirement?

Here is an article that talks about building an AP that acts like a bridge
on linux
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-wap.html?ca=dnt-429

iwconfig can tell the card to go to master mode. I do not know if this is
suposed to be possible with all cards or not.
Of course in this situation this would have to be set in windows. And the
configuration software might not allow this.
But maby it could be set with regedit.

How does the ctrl click 2 interfaces rt click select "bridge these
interfaces" work with wireless in XP ? My best guess is that it would have
to set the card to master mode or it would not work at all or it does not
create a true layer2 bridge.

Just throwing some ideas out there.

chris


> Ronald Pijnacker wrote:
>>>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 can
>>>ping your own machine because it's clever enough to deal with the packet
>>>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...
>
> Just to let you know that indeed it works when using a cable. Thanks for
>   saving me days of useless debugging effort.
>
> Ronald.
>
>
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