On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 12:03:47AM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > Deephay wrote: >> 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 I don't think bridging of wireless and ethernet works, why not just route the packets! use iptables to setup nat if you need >> 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? > > How did you set up the bridge? Show us your interfaces file. > > WT > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org with a > subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > -- "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." - George W. Bush 08/05/2004 Washington, DC
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