From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4815ED77.3030306@sneakemail.com> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:29:59 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Peter_Valdemar_M=F8rch_=28Lists=29=22?= <4ux6as402@sneakemail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <481597F3.6060400@sneakemail.com> <20080428125307.GB3499@tuxdriver.com> <20080428100453.156604um6fopq938@webapps.ghq.linux-wlan.com> In-Reply-To: <20080428100453.156604um6fopq938@webapps.ghq.linux-wlan.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [Bridge] Ethernet+Wireless Bridge? List-Id: Linux Ethernet Bridging List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org Thank you so much for your replies! REALLY!!!! Mark S. Mathews mark-at-linux-wlan.com |Lists| wrote: > Heh. I think the reason most folks think this should 'just work' is > because: "hey, it's wireless ethernet, right?", wrong. You can't=20 > ether-bridge natively across rs232, or bluetooth, or [any one of a=20 > hundred non-ethernet media] either. Ok, thanks! So all the howto's that simply suggest to do brctl and ifconfig as if there are no problems are simply *wrong*. Glad to get that cleared up. I thought I was going mad! > If your config consists of a STA and an AP, then the most forthright > solution (not necessarily easy, mind you...takes a bit of tweaking > to get it right) is to tunnel your ethernet frames across that link. > I've used vtun for this purpose in the past. >=20 > And, as John pointed out, using routing, with or without NAT, is even > easier. Do you _really_ have to have a bridge? No, I don't _really_ have to. :-) But it annoys me not knowing *why* it doesn't work, especially with bozos telling me it is easy. 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=3DU= S%2FLayout&cid=3D1134692497433&pagename=3DLinksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper= &lid=3D9743339789B05 From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi : > Wireless network bridges connect a wired network to a wireless > network. This is different from an access point in the sense that an > access point connects wireless devices to a wired network at the > data-link layer. So now I'm still clueless. The Linksys apparatus seems to do what I=20 need. It seems not to be an Access Point. Does this mean the Linksys=20 above is "using a WDS interface", and does not run as STA? 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... Peter --=20 Peter Valdemar M=F8rch http://www.morch.com