Hello List ! Alex Samad wrote:
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 internetI don't think bridging of wireless and ethernet works, why not just route the packets! use iptables to setup nat if you need
Indeed bridging with wireless is not a good idea: I experienced it ! Nevertheless, I have not yet understand in detail the suggested alternative: is there an howto somewhere about it ? Thanks in advance, Jerome
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
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