From 76f1f010d5b8b66a746f11cc1eec41dc19e96a45 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Thompson Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 23:03:22 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document that we can only bridge wireless interfaces in hostap mode, this is becoming a faq. MFC after: 1 week --- share/man/man4/if_bridge.4 | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/share/man/man4/if_bridge.4 b/share/man/man4/if_bridge.4 index 4ba09790c89d..73aa0b198585 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/if_bridge.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/if_bridge.4 @@ -261,5 +261,8 @@ The driver currently supports only Ethernet and Ethernet-like (e.g., 802.11) network devices, with exactly the same interface MTU size as the bridge device. .Pp +Only wireless interfaces in hostap mode can be bridged due to the 802.11 +framing format, bridging a wireless client is not supported yet. +.Pp The bridge implements version IEEE 802.1D 1998 of the Spanning Tree Protocol so newer features in IEEE 802.1D 2004 such as RSTP are not available.