[Voyage-linux] Network Bridge Question

Edwin Whitelaw (spam-protected)
Thu Oct 19 07:44:20 HKT 2006


Is routing an option?  I used to do mostly bridging and have goen to an 
almost totally routed net using internal private IPs.  It's worked well 
so far the the flexibility (not to mention partitioning of 
problems/traffic) is a real plus.

Edwin

Andrew Niemantsverdriet wrote:
> Ok I have a rather weird issue an I may not be going about this the right
> way so if somebody has suggestions I am all ears.
>
> I have a 2 port wrap setup and I have three interfaces bridged the two
> ethernet ports and a atheros card running in master mode. Upon reboot the
> wrap takes forever to be able to ping the gateway it is connected to.
> Devices that pass traffic through the bridge can typically ping the
> gateway soon after the wrap is booted (both wired and wireless). Anybody
> have any idea on what is going on or how to fix it? Or possbily a better
> way to set this up. Just to give a rough idea on how this is setup. One
> port of the wrap goes to a backhaul the other port goes down to a switch
> and the AP is open for public use.
>
> I am running voyage-0.2 stable.
>
>
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