Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Connecting through Batman advanced interface

[Kevin Steen <batman@kevinsteen.net>]

On 31/01/11 18:32, Clemens John wrote:
> Am Samstag 29 Januar 2011, 19:00:50 schrieb Marek Lindner:
>> Hi,
>>
>>> I think if we don't want to change back our configuration (batman-adv on
>>> vpn with its mtu-problems etc.) the simplest way would be connecting a
>>> usual router to the wrt54g.
>> I don't think the VPN is the problem here but the fact that you can't
>> bridge an interface running in adhoc mode. Ad-hoc is "lacks" a field in
>> the wifi header which makes bridging impossible.
>> However, I agree with your proposed solution - another router connected to
>> the Ethernet of the wrt54g can solve the issue.
> This is not possible in this case (I don´t have another router).
>
> Is there onother (maybe harder) way or a hack to do get the same result like
> when bridging two interfaces? Maybe with iptables?
>
> Or does anyone know what the status of multiple ssid on wrt54g with kernel 2.6
> is?
>
> Regards
> Clemens
If your non-batman clients don't need incoming connections, you could 
NAT outgoing connections :
   [client]-->[adhoc ath1]-->NAT-->[br-mesh]
You would have to run a DHCP server on the ath1 interface to give those 
clients a private IP and tell them to use the private IP on ath1 as 
their router.

-Kevin

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