[Voyage-linux] Bridge Driving Me Bonkers

[Andrew Niemantsverdriet]

Punky & all,

I will post my notes on the wiki, Punky feel free to clean them up or
change them as you see fit.

I will do that as soon as I can get to the wiki :)


On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 07:06 +0100, Giorgio Ducci wrote:
> 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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