Hopefully this is a simple answer. I am new to setting up bridges on a linux system. Here is what I have set up: Laptop directly connected to the eth0 port on the bridge (A Soekris 4521 board). The otherside of the bridge is a wirelass lan card (SMC2532b-w) as wlan0. The wlan0 is setup in managed mode to communicate to my test ap2000. When I do a 'brctl showmacs br0' on the bridge it shows a bunch of mac addresses. So, I beleive the problem of using a wireless card is not relevant in this case. If I am wrong please let me know. If I do a ping from the bridge (I can telnet into it), all packets are lost. If I do a ping from the laptop, all packets are lost, but I also receive the message Destination Host Unreachable. Here is the commands in the 'interfaces' file for setting up the bridge: iface br0 inet dhcp bridge_ports eth0 wlan0 pre-up ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 up pre-up ifconfig wlan0 0.0.0.0 up pre-up iwconfig wlan0 mode managed pre-up iwconfig wlan0 essid test pre-up iwconfig wlan0 key off pre-up brctl addbr br0 pre-up brctl addif br0 eth0 pre-up brctl addif br0 wlan0 pre-up ifconfig br0 172.17.4.10 netmask 255.255.0.0 gateway 172.17.1.1 up Any ideas on what I need to do to get this bridge working? Thanks, Wes Hegge SignalBlast.Com, Inc. e: whegge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx p: (815) 397-1700
