On 5/18/06, Chris Buechler <cbuechler at gmail dot com> wrote:
> On 5/18/06, Noah Dain <noahdain at gmail dot com> wrote:
> > I'm looking for information on how to bridge a wireless interface to
> > the wan (ethernet) interface.
> >
>
> I've tried to bridge an ath card to an Ethernet card with 1.2b7 (what
> powerg8's run), and it just doesn't work.  Some sort of issue in
> FreeBSD 5.x.  I believe this should work in FreeBSD 6, though I
> personally haven't tried it, so you might want to check out pfsense.
>
> -Chris
>

for posterity:

finally got it working with pfsense 1beta3 (embedded).

the main trick was to disable bridge-filtering.  Somehow with that
enabled dhcp datagrams were getting eaten somewhere along the line.

pfsense is pretty damn sweet, imo.

-- 
Noah Dain
"I don't want to make toys, I want to be a dentist!"