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From: Orest Skrypuch <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> Full Headers
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Subject: [OS2Wireless] Virtual Switch from Innotek Virtual PC can't see out through Prism mini-pci WiFi of Thinkpad A31
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:29:13 -0400
To: os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com

Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:

A follow-up to my last reply. At Warpstock this morning, I'm sitting next to Oliver Stein from Innotek, and just asked him about this issue. Here's a more exact answer:

In order for Vswitch to work with Wi-Fi, two things need to happen: The driver for the card must support promiscuous mode (Jens' drivers do, others may not); and the access point must be able to work inefficiently, meaning, it must not discard packets signed with a different MAC address than the Wi-Fi NIC of the client; many AP's - for the sake of efficiency and security - simply discard such packets.

Which AP are you using?

Just jumping into the conversation ...

I use the IBM PCCard wireless, with Jen's drivers (RC3), so the first condition is met. I have an SMC 2804WBR wireless router. Does the latter work "inefficiently". It does have an option to restrict signons to specified MACs, and I leave that configured, but that I think is not quite the same issue.

* Orest


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