Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Need help bridging Regular AP to Batman

[Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>]

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Hi Andre,

On Thursday 14 January 2016 16:31:08 André Pouliot wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to do a mesh network using the RaspberryPi and Batman.
> 
> My problem is I'm using 2 wifi card on one raspberrypi one for batman and
> the other one for connecting to my wireless access point.
> 
> I already made my mesh network I can ping on layer 2 or 3 between 2
> raspberrypi. When connecting the Ethernet cable(on the raspberry with 2
> wifi dongle) I can use the bridge to ping toward the internet. But when I
> disconnect the cable I can't ping internet anymore.
> 
> I already verified my batman interface and my bridge both seem to work

You are using your second non-mesh WiFi card (wlan 1) in client mode, right? 
You can't include client mode into a bridge, because a WiFi client (normally) 
does not support bridging. Actually your system should prevent it ...

> 
> The AP is connected on wlan1, wlan1 doesn't have an IP address assigned to
> it. The AP is configured with WPA2. When trying to assign a address using
> dhclient to the bridge interface the system can't seem to find a way and
> the command is waiting.
> 
> If I want to connected my batman network to a standard wifi AP do I need to
> use a bridge or the functionality exist with batman?

If you want to connect your Raspi to your WiFi AP, I see the following 
options:
 * Use Layer 3 Routing and keep the WiFi Client
 * Configure your Raspi as AP and your WiFi AP into client mode (if it supports 
that)
 * Connect one of your Raspis to Ethernet and don't use the WiFi AP at all.

Hope I got your question right .... :)

Cheers,
      Simon

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