Wireless to Wired Bridged

[Just_Johnny]

Anybody have experience with this? Could you offer some tips/advice?

Is it even possible?

[brd@]

This is easy, just follow the handbook:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-bridging.html

[Just_Johnny]

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-routing.html

I've been reading this document. Should I be reading that?

The document you submitted only mentions wireless one time. It says and I quote:

"A bridge can also connect a wireless interface running in hostap mode to a wired network and act as an access point."

31.5.2.1

Does it make a diffrence that one of the interfaces is wireless when bridging?

:rAmen

[jvdb]

This may not be the answer you are looking for, but I would recommend getting a wireless router that will run DD-WRT. Linksys WRT54GL routers are not much over $50 now.

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Wireless_Bridge

[tingo]

Does it make a diffrence that one of the interfaces is wireless when bridging?

No - it doesn't. A bridge is just a bridge.

[frankpeng]

How to set up hostapd when the wireless card used as a component of a bridge?

[kpedersen]

As I recall (and I am trying to find my previous thread on this forum where I learnt this). A bridge between wireless and wired didn't work so well because the wireless router doesn't accept packets from different mac addresses or something.

So if (like me) you cannot get a simple bridge to work as it should, try giving NAT a go.

[disi]

I have a D-Link access point running as "repeater" with WDS to the router upstairs. Those devices also have one RJ45 port, which works as a brigde between wireless and wired.