Hi all,
maybe there is someone who can help...
Problem:
I have a meshcube (www.meshcube.org) with two prim 2.5 mini-pci WLAN cards...
wlan0 should connect as client (managed mode) to a normal access point which is connected to the internet.
wlan1 should work as accesspoint (master mode).
I would like to bridge between wlan0 and wlan1 so that I can connect with my Laptop Client2 to the AccessPoint on wlan1 and go, through the wlan0 client connection to the normal AccessPoint, to the internet...
So here is the hardware setup:
Internet ----- AccessPoint (192.168.0.1) -------- CLient/AP Bridge (192.168.0.100 (2 cards in one box)) | | Laptop Client 1 my Laptop CLient 2
(192.168.0.33) (192.168.0.117)
The data of the WLAN devices:
hostap_diag wlan0 Host AP driver diagnostics information for 'wlan0'
NICID: id=0x8013 v1.0.0 (PRISM II (2.5) Mini-PCI (SST parallel flash)) PRIID: id=0x0015 v1.1.1 STAID: id=0x001f v1.7.4 (station firmware)agnostics information for 'wlan0'
hostap_diag wlan1 Host AP driver diagnostics information for 'wlan1'
NICID: id=0x8013 v1.0.0 (PRISM II (2.5) Mini-PCI (SST parallel flash)) PRIID: id=0x0015 v1.1.1 STAID: id=0x001f v1.7.4 (station firmware)agnostics information for 'wlan0'
I have written the following bridge script:
ETHER0=wlan0 ETHER1=wlan1 BRIDGE=br0 BRIDGEIP=192.168.0.100 BRIDGEGW=192.168.0.1 BRIDGENM=255.255.255.0 BRIDGESTP=off ### must be "on" with more then one bridge
### stop configure ###
echo -n "stopping firewall: "
iptables -F iptables -F -t nat iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT
echo "*** network is insecure now *** "
echo "done."
case "$1" in
start)
echo "Starting service bridge br0"
echo "Bridge IP will be: $BRIDGEIP"
ifconfig $ETHER0 promisc up
ifconfig $ETHER1 promisc up
sleep 2
brctl addbr $BRIDGE
brctl setbridgeprio $BRIDGE 0
ifconfig $ETHER0 0.0.0.0
ifconfig $ETHER1 0.0.0.0
brctl addif $BRIDGE $ETHER0
brctl addif $BRIDGE $ETHER1
#brctl stp $BRIDGE $BRIDGESTP
#brctl sethello $BRIDGE 1
#brctl setmaxage $BRIDGE 4
#brctl setfd $BRIDGE 4
echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward # I know it's not really neccessary
ifconfig $BRIDGE $BRIDGEIP netmask $BRIDGENM up # but it was a test
route add default gw $BRIDGEGW $BRIDGE
echo -e "Bridge needs 30 sec. to learn table!\n(depends on kernel version...)\n"
;;
If I start the script the bridge goes up and I can ping the bridge (192.168.0.100) from outside with the Laptop Client 1. I can also ping my Laptop Client2 from outside but from my Laptop Client2 I can not ping the gateway behind the bridge (192.168.0.1) or the Laptop Client1 but I can ping the bridge interface from my Laptop Client2 which is connected to the WLAN1 AccessPoint in the bridge...
With tcpdump I can see that the there is an arp request from my Laptop Client2 on the bridge interface to see who has 192.168.0.1 if I try to ping e.g. 192.168.0.1 but I get no reply from the bridge. On my Laptop I get the message "Host unreachable".
Looks like that the AccessPoint or the Client in the bridge, the MAC address within the arp request from my Laptop Client1 to the one of the correspondig interfaces inside the bridge replaced and that that is the reason while I can't receive the answer to my arp request. Might this be possible? And if - do you know a solution to solve that problem? Or do you have another solution with the same effect but without wds please;)
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