On 2/21/07, Christopher M. Iarocci <iarocci at eastendsc dot com> wrote:
> Anyone using a wireless WAN card that is able to bridge it with an OPT
> card and it passes traffic?  I have a m0n0wall with a Cisco wireless
> card, attached to an access point.  The OPT1 card is attached to a
> network, LAN card attached to nothing.  Both the WAN and OPT sides have
> private networks.  When I bridge them, I can no longer pass any traffic
> through them.  I did uncheck "Block private networks", but that didn't
> help.  I did NOT enable filtering bridge.  Since I am not filtering,
> shouldn't all traffic just pass on through?
>

There's an issue with wireless and bridging. I don't recall the exact
specifics offhand, but I believe the problem is bridging a wireless
interface only works if the wireless is in hostap mode. Known FreeBSD
bug, IIRC. I don't know of any workarounds.

-Chris