Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 10:53:01 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to use if_bridge Message-ID: <200604151053.25089.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20060414140709.20c51ebc@localhost> References: <200604142048.20189.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20060414140709.20c51ebc@localhost>
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--nextPart2383485.QTARSd2WX3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 14 April 2006 21:37, Fabian Keil wrote: > > killall devd [to stop it running dhclient] > > /etc/rc.d/netif stop ath0 > > ifconfig bridge0 create > > wpa_supplicant -i ath0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf > > ifconfig bridge0 create > > ifconfig bridge0 addm ath0 > > dhclient bridge0 > > What's the intention behind the last step > and why did you have to create bridge0 twice? Sorry I made a mistake transcribing my steps.. I only created it once :) I tried the wired interface on my laptop and it worked fine so I think=20 bridging confuses wpa_supplicant - I restarted wpa_supplicant in the=20 foreground and it gave me errors the moment I added it to the bridge. > If you didn't already, you have to set net.inet.ip.forwarding. Ahh OK. > Depending on your firewall setup you might have to disable > some of the net.link.bridge sysctls as well. I don't have any firewalls in the kernel for simplicity at this stage. Thanks for your help. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart2383485.QTARSd2WX3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEQEsM5ZPcIHs/zowRAgOjAJ970GOcX12q80FbScXKuxRnvszu3QCePXpn NnVC5zHclo9jNkQygkOA9TI= =VR+5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2383485.QTARSd2WX3--
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