Thank you so much for your replies! REALLY!!!! Mark S. Mathews mark-at-linux-wlan.com |Lists| wrote: > Heh. I think the reason most folks think this should 'just work' is > because: "hey, it's wireless ethernet, right?", wrong. You can't > ether-bridge natively across rs232, or bluetooth, or [any one of a > hundred non-ethernet media] either. Ok, thanks! So all the howto's that simply suggest to do brctl and ifconfig as if there are no problems are simply *wrong*. Glad to get that cleared up. I thought I was going mad! > If your config consists of a STA and an AP, then the most forthright > solution (not necessarily easy, mind you...takes a bit of tweaking > to get it right) is to tunnel your ethernet frames across that link. > I've used vtun for this purpose in the past. > > And, as John pointed out, using routing, with or without NAT, is even > easier. Do you _really_ have to have a bridge? No, I don't _really_ have to. :-) But it annoys me not knowing *why* it doesn't work, especially with bozos telling me it is easy. The ADSL / phone line comes into the house in a very impractical place. I have servers + switch in one place, and some other equipment in another. I'd like to connect these into a single subnet with a wireless+ethernet bridge in each island. Sorta like the Linksys Wet 54 claims to do: http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_Product_C2&childpagename=US%2FLayout&cid=1134692497433&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper&lid=9743339789B05 From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi : > Wireless network bridges connect a wired network to a wireless > network. This is different from an access point in the sense that an > access point connects wireless devices to a wired network at the > data-link layer. So now I'm still clueless. The Linksys apparatus seems to do what I need. It seems not to be an Access Point. Does this mean the Linksys above is "using a WDS interface", and does not run as STA? Honestly, from your emails I can hear it is not easy, but I'm still not clear whether this is possible under Linux. Apparently it *is* possible for the Linksys to do it... Peter -- Peter Valdemar Mørch http://www.morch.com _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list Bridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge
