In message <20020217124954.A5166@noc.untraceable.net>, Andrew Brown writes:


>
>i've found that newer cards, when put into promiscuous mode (as is
>required by bridging) simply refuse to tramsmit.  they pick up packets
>just fine, but never send anything.  as such, bridging between a wired
>network and a wireless network is going to be very difficult.
>

Were you using WEP?  I think that there's a bug with regard to WEP and 
promiscuous mode.  

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