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| author | thompsa <thompsa@FreeBSD.org> | 2006-06-16 23:03:22 +0000 |
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| committer | thompsa <thompsa@FreeBSD.org> | 2006-06-16 23:03:22 +0000 |
| commit | a0100cc14da899ea9608c3add4b42a605bfb94f6 (patch) | |
| tree | 1288d471db3cc361e7586193ff1f6ef3a251ce57 /share/man/man4/if_bridge.4 | |
| parent | 4722c838de4c3e8bf39c669d0e19510a2f0a0940 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-a0100cc14da899ea9608c3add4b42a605bfb94f6.zip FreeBSD-src-a0100cc14da899ea9608c3add4b42a605bfb94f6.tar.gz | |
Document that we can only bridge wireless interfaces in hostap mode, this is
becoming a faq.
MFC after: 1 week
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man4/if_bridge.4')
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/if_bridge.4 b/share/man/man4/if_bridge.4 index 4ba0979..73aa0b1 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/if_bridge.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/if_bridge.4 @@ -261,5 +261,8 @@ The driver currently supports only Ethernet and Ethernet-like (e.g., 802.11) network devices, with exactly the same interface MTU size as the bridge device. .Pp +Only wireless interfaces in hostap mode can be bridged due to the 802.11 +framing format, bridging a wireless client is not supported yet. +.Pp The bridge implements version IEEE 802.1D 1998 of the Spanning Tree Protocol so newer features in IEEE 802.1D 2004 such as RSTP are not available. |
