[Voyage-linux] bridge wlan eth [ 0.7.5 ]

[John Schultz]

OK,... and my situation?


On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 08:48, Punky Tse <punkytse at punknix.com> wrote:

> Hi Davide,
>
> This is easy:
>
> In /etc/network/interfaces (br0 request IP from dhcp):
> auto br0
> iface br0 inet dhcp
>
>        bridge_ports eth0 wlan0
>
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet manual
>
> auto wlan0
> iface wlan0 inet manual
>
>        hostapd /etc/hostapd/hostapd.wlan0.**conf
>
> In /etc/hostapd/hostapd.wlan0.**conf, make sure you have line:
>
> bridge=br0
>
>
>
> On 1/9/2011 20:01, themrorange at gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm having some troubles configuring an access point and bridging the wifi
>> to the ethernet.
>> The AP is inside a LAN network and gets the ethernet IP from the DHCP
>> server. At the same time it has a static wifi network to manage.
>>
>> I'm facing two main problems:
>>
>> 1) when I bring up the wifi interface (wlan0) the machine cannot reach
>> internet anymore.
>>
>> 2) when I bring up the bridge interface (br0) the eth0 get confused with
>> the DHCP server and is not reachable anymore. From netstat I can see that
>> the default gateway becomes the br0 gateway for the eth0 interface and the
>> wlan0 loses the ip.
>>
>> I think that I should add some route telling to the wlan0 how to use the
>> br0 to get the eth0 and the other way around but I cannot figure it out. I'm
>> a bit confused regarding the bridge interface usage. In witch subnet it
>> supposed to be? does it has to be in a separated one? I'm googoling but I
>> haven't get it yet.
>>
>> Please, can you have a look to my /etc/network/interfaces below?
>>
>> Many thanks
>>
>> Davide
>>
>>
>>
>> # Bridge
>> auto br0
>> iface br0 inet static
>>         address 192.168.254.2
>>         netmask 255.255.255.0
>>         network 192.168.254.0
>>         broadcast 192.168.254.255
>>         gateway 192.168.254.1
>>         bridge_ports eth0 wlan0
>>
>>
>> auto eth0
>> iface eth0 inet dhcp
>>
>>
>> # Master WLAN infrastructured WPA2
>> auto wlan0
>> iface wlan0 inet static
>>         hostapd /etc/hostapd/hostapd.wlan0.**conf
>>         address 192.168.2.1
>>         netmask 255.255.255.0
>>         network 192.168.2.0
>>         gateway 192.168.2.1
>>         broadcast 192.168.2.255
>>
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