On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 05:22:49PM +0200, "Peter Valdemar Mørch (Lists)" wrote: > Hi all you wonderful people, > > Srinivas M.A. srinivas.aji-at-gmail.com |Lists| wrote: > > The equivalent solution on Linux seems like parprouted > > (http://www.hazard.maks.net/parprouted/), which also seems to be > > packaged for Debian, etc. I haven't used it, just found it searching > > for "arp proxy" and linux. But it seems worth a look. > > Yes, I tried parprouted. It works well within what it promises to do. > But broadcast (e.g. for DHCP!) is not supported. It, in turn suggests to > use dhcrelay to support DHCP with parprouted. But I didn't try that. I > still hadn't given up on getting a bridge to work. > > But I have now. Discussion of parprouted is probably off-topic here, but I'm glad someone mentioned it because I didn't know about it. I have, however, been manually using the techniques it seems to use for some time to good effect. I have had trouble getting either dhcrelay or dhcp-fwd to work in this kind of environment. If you figure-out how to make it work, let me know! I suspect that the authors of those utilities did not anticipate that sort of usage, and therefore are not using APIs that direct outgoing frames appropriately. However, I could be wrong -- I haven't dug very deeply. > John W. Linville linville-at-tuxdriver.com |Lists| wrote: > > For now, my previous recommendation (routing w/ or w/o IP NAT) still > > stands as the simplest and best documented approach. If that does > > not appeal to you, I suspect that bridging combined with L2 NAT via > > ebtables as described in the URL cited above will work...YMMV. > > I've just purchased a 3Com 3CRUSB10075 based on the zd1211 driver. Like > always with Linux it seems, buying hardware is a pseudo-man-month job > understanding the underlying technologies and so forth. Is the zd1211 > driver "good"? No idea. Does it support WDS? Promiscuous mode? No idea. > Will I ever need either? No idea. Unfortunately, I don't think you will see any different (or at least not better) behavior with that driver either -- it is also based on mac80211. > The fact that I'm frustrated is not an indication that I'm less than in > awe of the response and attention I've gotten here. Thanks a bundle. I'm > off to enjoying my 3com with parprouted when it arrives and to > experiment with nat, routing and ebtables just in case. Good plan... :-) John -- John W. Linville linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list Bridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge
