Re: [Bridge] Ethernet+Wireless Bridge?

["John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 05:29:59PM +0200, "Peter Valdemar Mørch (Lists)" wrote:

> The ADSL / phone line comes into the house in a very impractical place.
> I have servers + switch in one place, and some other equipment in
> another. I'd like to connect these into a single subnet with a
> wireless+ethernet bridge in each island. Sorta like the Linksys Wet 54
> claims to do:
> http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_Product_C2&childpagename=US%2FLayout&cid=1134692497433&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper&lid=9743339789B05

That is a very specialized device and so it is probably using some
form of L2 NAT.  I wonder for example if it even supports multiple
devices attached to it's ethernet port?

As for the scenario you describe, I have something similar at my
location.  I use two wrt54g's running OpenWRT, and I establish WDS
connections between them.

> Honestly, from your emails I can hear it is not easy, but I'm still not
> clear whether this is possible under Linux. Apparently it *is* possible
> for the Linksys to do it...

It is possible on Linux, but not with a mac80211-based device using
a stock kernel.

John
-- 
John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com