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Re: Network bridge between two wi-fi cards



In <[🔎] 4CB6FA7E.1040502@dornea.nu>, Victor Dorneanu wrote:
>I'd like to create a bridge between 2 WLAN cards. The first one is
>connected to the Internet via wpa_supplicant, the second one should act
>as an AP. Both cards work in* promiscuous mode.
>
>Is this possible?

Mo.  "Bridging" generally refers to 802.1d or 802.1h, which are supported well 
under 802.3 (Ethernet) but were not included in the current 802.11 ("Wi-Fi") 
standard.

Best to route the traffic at the IP layer.  You may be able to do layer 2 
bridging using an ARP proxy.
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