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Date:      Thu, 15 Apr 2004 14:00:12 +0200
From:      Kai Mosebach <kai@freshx.de>
To:        Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
Cc:        Kai Mosebach <kai@freshx.de>
Subject:   Re: Bridging problems on 5.2-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <1082030412.407e794c3ece3@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20040415022517.X84867@odysseus.silby.com>
References:  <1081948400.407d38f081851@localhost> <20040415022517.X84867@odysseus.silby.com>

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Hello Mike,

That helped, Thanks! even though it seems a litte odd to me :), especially 
because xl0 is the "main" network, and the wireless one is only an "addon" ...

up to now, i dont see any MAC-addr-toggle-warnings.

Best Kai

> 
> On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Kai Mosebach wrote:
> 
> > Dear list,
> >
> > recently i tried to setup a wireless bridge onto my freebsd 5.2 server.
> >
> > i followed the instructions on the ath manpage and set the bridge up with
> :
> >
> > ifconfig ath0 inet up <params>
> > sysctl net.link.ether.bridge.enable=1
> > sysctl net.link.ether.bridge.config="ath0 xl0"
> > sysctl net.inet.ip.forwarding=1
> >
> > the ath interface has no ip adress, but xl0 has.
> 
> I'm using a similar setup on 4.x (with wi in place of ath), and it works
> reasonably well.  The one difference is that I did assign an IP address to
> the wireless interface, although I always communicate with the LAN IP
> address.
> 
> Note that one problem the FreeBSD arp code has (as of now) is that it
> isn't really multi-interface aware; you'll see lots of messages on the
> wireless client where it sees the lan IP moving back and forth between the
> MAC addresses of the wireless and LAN cards.  Is it possible that this
> behavior is confusing your client somehow?
> 
> > now i can ping all of my lan-clients from the wireless, excepting the
> bridge
> > itself. i saw some reports about problems in the bridge module of 4.x so i
> > build my kernel with options BRIDGE, but no changes.
> 
> I had problems with the module under 4.x, so I am using BRIDGE in the
> kernel config as well.
> 
> > the second problem is, that i have a DSL router on my cabled segment, which
> is
> > pingable from wireless, but setting it as default gw and DNS server on the
> > wireless client is not working, internet access is not possible.
> >
> > any ideas ?
> >
> > best Kai
> 
> Maybe the second problem is part of the first problem manifesting itself
> in a different way.
> 
> Mike "Silby" Silbersack
> 
> 
> 





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