[Voyage-linux] eth0

[Edwin Whitelaw]

Jeff,

You can't bridge by assigning two interfaces addresses in the same subnet.  You'll need to check out the bridging FAQs.

Here's a working bridge interfaces file from one of my systems.  It's running Voyage 0.2 but you should get the idea.

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# hostap WDS Bridge
auto br0
iface br0 inet static
        address 172.16.8.4
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        broadcast 172.16.8.255
        gateway 172.16.8.1
        bridge_ports eth0 wlan0
#        bridge_ports eth0 wlan0 wlan0wds0
        pre-up iwconfig wlan0 mode Master essid wetherburn channel 11
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Note that ifconfig will show both eth0 and wlan0 (the AP in my case) as up but without IP addresses.  The IP address is actually assigned to br0.

HTH,

Edwin 

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auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
      address 192.168.1.14
      netmask 255.255.255.0
      broadcast 192.168.1.255
      gateway 192.168.1 254

auto ath0
iface ath0 inet static
      address 192.168.1.15
      netmask 255.255.255.0
      broadcast 192.168.1.255
      madwifi-base wifi0
      wireless-mode Master
#     wireless-mode Adhoc
#     wireless-mode Managed
      up iwpriv ath0 mode 3
      up iwconfig ath0 mode Master
      up iwconfig ath0 freq 2.412G
      up iwconfig ath0 essid "voyage"
      up iwconfig ath0 txpower 20 dBm
      up iwconfig ath0 enc off
      up iwconfig ath0 rate 54M
up nat.sh ath0 eth0 "192.168.1.14/24"  

  As you can see I added the gateway line for eth0 but, no change. It's the same with that commented.

Thanks,
Jeff



jeffery at martcoinc.com wrote:
> Hello,
>  
>  
>     For some reason I can not get my nic set up. I changed the default 
> ip to what I need but, it will not even reply to a ping. I just want 
> to create a simple yet powerful AP using ath0 and eth0. Any help would 
> be appreciated.
>  
>  
>  
>  
> Thanks,
> Jeff Rager
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