[Voyage-linux] Wireless Network Setup using WDS

[Luke Fahey]

Hi All

Im in the process of creating a wireless network in a star topology
using alix boxes and voyage with 2x atherous wireless cards. Being new
to this type of setup im not sure what im doing wrong.

Basically I can get two of the boxes to communicate via the following
config on each device. The issue is when I add a third box I lose
connectivity with the second one. If I comment out the second wds
section the first will work and vice versa.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Cheers

Luke

 

# create and configure AP interface

wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi1 wlanmode ap

iwconfig ath0 essid backhaul channel 160

iwpriv ath0 mode 1

 

# create first WDS interface, tell about WDS partner, enable WDS mode

wlanconfig wdsath10 create wlandev wifi1 wlanmode wds

iwpriv wdsath10 wds_add <mac address of partner>

iwpriv wdsath10 wds 1

 

# create second WDS interface, tell about WDS partner, enable WDS mode

wlanconfig wdsath11 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode wds

iwpriv wdsath11 wds_add <mac_address_of_wds_partner_2>

iwpriv wdsath11 wds 1

 

###MAKE ACCESS POINT

wlanconfig ath1 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode ap

iwpriv ath1 mode 2

iwconfig ath1 essid WIFIAP channel 11

### set distance

athctrl auth0 -d 40

# bring all interfaces up

# NOTE: Bringing up the AP interface first is important at this time

ifconfig ath0 up

ifconfig ath1 up

ifconfig wdsath10 up

ifconfig eth0 up

ifconfig wdsath11 up

 

# create the bridge and enslave all needed interfaces

brctl addbr br0

brctl addif br0 ath0

brctl addif br0 ath1

brctl addif br0 wdsath10

#brctl addif br0 wdsath11

brctl addif br0 eth0

# bring up the bridge

ifconfig br0 192.168.16.6 255.255.255.0 up

 

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