Re: Bridging problems on 5.2-RELEASE
From: Kai Mosebach (kai_at_freshx.de)
Date: 04/15/04
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Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 14:00:12 +0200 To: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
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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