wlan0 eth0 bridging problem

[Deephay <tudoxxx@gmail.com>]

Greetings all,

  I have two NICs on my laptop: eth0 and wlan0, I tried to bridge them
and use a ad-hoc connection with my cellphone to share the internet
connection, everythings seems OK, but if you tried to ping the
cellphone from the laptop, ARP requests will not get any answer:

# ifconfig br0
br0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:16:d3:f5:85:9f
          inet addr:192.168.10.1  Bcast:192.168.10.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:5729 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:7999 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:3693622 (3.5 MiB)  TX bytes:1154223 (1.1 MiB)


# brctl show
bridge name	bridge id		STP enabled	interfaces
br0		8000.0016d3f5859f	no		        eth0
							                wlan0
tcpdump will show the ARP request message again and again, this
behavior is different from MS Windows bridging. Could anyone tell me
why?

Deephay