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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:35:07 -0500 (EST)
From: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
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Subject: Ethernet bridging with wireless
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I just tried to set up ethernet bridging between the wireless interface
and the wired ethernet interface on my laptop machine.  It didn't work.  
As far as I could tell from the tcpdump output, the wireless stack
doesn't want to transmit packets with a foreign link-layer source
address.

Is there any way around this restriction?  Or must I resort to IP 
forwarding instead?

Thanks,

Alan Stern