[Voyage-linux] Bridge Driving Me Bonkers

[Giorgio Ducci]

Hi Andrew,

I was writing to you & to the mailing list, of course, because I use my 
Voyage as a bridge, too. However as you pointed out I use wifi in Master 
mode so everything is fine.
Concerning the proxy arp I'm amways interested in new and unique things, so 
please post it anyway or write a wiki. Contributions are always welcome.
Thanks for the great job that everybody does in this mailing list.

Cheers

Giorgio

>For all who are following this thread.
>
>Punky mailed me off list and pointed me to a site that said wireless
>bridging would not work. That message was right mostly. When the
>wireless card is in master mode bridging works great. I have 3 access
>points working in that mode now. However on the other side when the
>wireless card is in Managed mode the bridge ceases to function do to the
>fact that the wireless card does not know where the wired clients are.
>
>With out going into network theory to much there is a solution; proxy
>arp. There is a program out there called parprouted that does proxy arp
>for wireless and fits the bill quite nicely. I have tested and confirmed
>that it works. I have also made a script that makes things a little
>easier if anybody is interested. Judging from the responce to my first
>mail on this topic I think what I am doing is pretty unique so maybe
>nobody else cares.
>
>
>On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 19:40 -0700, Andrew Niemantsverdriet wrote:
> > I am trying to make a basic bridge between eth0 and wlan0. When I ssh
> > into the box I can ping both the Internet at large (wlan0 faces
> > Internet) and of course the device that I used to ssh in with (connected
> > to eth0).
> >
> > However when I try from the computer sitting behind the wrap to ping the
> > Internet I can't get through. Seems to be "stuck" at the bridge. Any
> > suggestions?
> >
> > Here is my interfaces file:
> > # Used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8). See the interfaces(5) manpage or
> > # /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples for more information.
> > auto lo
> > iface lo inet loopback
> >
> > auto br0
> > iface br0 inet static
> >      address 192.168.254.13
> >      netmask 255.255.255.0
> >      network 192.168.254.0
> >      broadcast 192.168.254.255
> >      gateway 192.168.254.1
> >      bridge_ports eth0 wlan0
> >      pre-up ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 up
> >      pre-up ifconfig wlan0 0.0.0.0 up
> >      pre-up iwconfig wlan0 essid hotspot2 mode managed rate 1M
> >      #pre-up iwconfig wlan0 123456789012
> >      pre-up brctl addbr br0
> >      pre-up brctl addif br0 eth0
> >      pre-up brctl addif br0 wlan0
> >      post-down ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 down
> >      post-down ifconfig wlan0 0.0.0.0 down
> >      post-down brctl delif br0 eth0
> >      post-down brctl delif br0 wlan0
> >      post-down brctl delbr br0
> >
> > This interface file works great for AP's (with a few changes). Any help
> > would be really appreciated.
> >
> >
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