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Re: linux bridge + orinoco: msg#00006

Subject: Re: linux bridge + orinoco
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 07:05:49PM +0200, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 of August 2004 07:34, David Gibson wrote:
> 
> > > From what I know orinoco cards do not work at all when running them in
> > > linux bridge and that this is firmware limitation (correct?).
> 
> > Sorry, I'm not entirely sure what you mean by a linux bridge in this
> > context.
> 
> In my case it's bridge created by using bridge-utils 
> (http://bridge.sourceforge.net/). My br0 is eth0 (via-rhine card) and eth1 
> (orinoco_cs card).
> 
> tcpdump on one orinoco_cs doesn't show any traffic comming from other 
> orinoco_cs card and vice versa. If I set IP addresses to both orinoco_cs 
> cards and do not use bridge then I can ping both of them without any 
> problems.

As far as I know this is not a firmware problem.  I gather the driver
doesn't do something it needs to to support bridging.  But no-one's
ever told me exactly what it was, and I've never had time to find out
for myself...

-- 
David Gibson                    | For every complex problem there is a
david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au  | solution which is simple, neat and
                                | wrong.
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