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The part, where wireless nic is not allowed to be enslaved to a bridge, I believe that it was allowed at one point in the past. The root cause is that the wirel
by pm2222 4y ago
The part, where wireless nic is not allowed to be enslaved to a bridge, I believe that it was allowed at one point in the past. The root cause is that the wireless frame has 3-4 MAC addresses versus Ethernet just 2. But somehow software should be able to do something about it. Why not?
- fuzzy2 4y agoThis can work with MAC address translation (NAT, but on a lower level) and connection tracking. Not exactly a great solution. Alternatively, you can have one association with the access point per device, which is what some off-the-shelf repeaters do. Drivers often limit these to very low numbers. This wasn't possible in the past either. There's WDS (4-address mode) and some drivers that did what I describe above under the hood. That's it.
- 3np 4y agoThat part of the story was a plot hole for my. Why did the protagonist not just set up a forwarding proxy, or IP forwarding, on the laptop? Tor is convenient. https_proxy=socks://laptop:9050 curl ...