From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:28:46 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" Message-ID: <20080428162846.GA17786@tuxdriver.com> References: <481597F3.6060400@sneakemail.com> <20080428125307.GB3499@tuxdriver.com> <20080428100453.156604um6fopq938@webapps.ghq.linux-wlan.com> <4815ED77.3030306@sneakemail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In-Reply-To: <4815ED77.3030306@sneakemail.com> Subject: Re: [Bridge] Ethernet+Wireless Bridge? List-Id: Linux Ethernet Bridging List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Valdemar =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=F8rch_=28Lists=29?= <4ux6as402@sneakemail.com> Cc: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 05:29:59PM +0200, "Peter Valdemar M=F8rch (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=3DL_Product_C2&childpagename= =3DUS%2FLayout&cid=3D1134692497433&pagename=3DLinksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWra= pper&lid=3D9743339789B05 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 --=20 John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com