[Voyage-linux] Bridging Wired and Wireless

Edwin Whitelaw (spam-protected)
Sat Feb 27 03:19:35 HKT 2010


Frank,

Whose ATOM board are you using?

Thanks,

Edwin

Frank Parker wrote:
> So far voyage-0.6.5 is working great on my ATOM 330 based board.
> Slowly converting this device into a wireless router.  Thanks to
> Punky's blog I now have the built-in wireless converted to an access
> point with the ath9k driver and hostapd.
>
> I just added a Netgear FA120 USB Ethernet and eth1 popped up
> immediately (I think it loaded the asix module).
>
> Now I want to bridge wlan0 with eth1 to create the LAN side of this
> device (with a static IP and dhcp server for wired & wireless clients)
> and use eth0 as the WAN side of the device (with dhcp client to pull
> leases from the ISP).
>
> I created the bridge in /etc/network/interfaces but now when I try to
> associate with wlan0 it fails to authenticate the WPA key (yes I'm
> typing it correctly).  If I remove the bridge from
> /etc/network/interfaces, I can associate again.  I must have something
> wrong in the config.
>
> ---[SNIP]---
> voyage:~# cat /etc/network/interfaces
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
>
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
>
> auto eth1
> iface eth1 inet manual
>
> auto wlan0
> iface wlan0 inet manual
>       #address 10.1.10.1
>       #netmask 255.255.255.0
>       #broadcast 10.1.10.255
>       #up nat.sh wlan0 eth0 "10.1.10.0/24"
>
> auto br0
> iface br0 inet static
>     address 192.168.10.1
>     network 192.168.10.0
>     netmask 255.255.255.0
>     broadcast 192.168.10.255
>     bridge-ports eth1 wlan0
> ---[SNIP]---
>
> How can I accomplish this?  Also, does this require vlans?
>
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