On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 12:03:47AM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > Deephay wrote: >> Greetings all, >> >> I have two NICs on my laptop: eth0 and wlan0, I tried to bridge them >> and use a ad-hoc connection with my cellphone to share the internet
I don't think bridging of wireless and ethernet works, why not just
route the packets! use iptables to setup nat if you need
>> connection, everythings seems OK, but if you tried to ping the
>> cellphone from the laptop, ARP requests will not get any answer:
>>
>> # ifconfig br0
>> br0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:d3:f5:85:9f
>> inet addr:192.168.10.1 Bcast:192.168.10.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
>> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
>> RX packets:5729 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>> TX packets:7999 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>> RX bytes:3693622 (3.5 MiB) TX bytes:1154223 (1.1 MiB)
>>
>>
>> # brctl show
>> bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces
>> br0 8000.0016d3f5859f no eth0
>> wlan0
>> tcpdump will show the ARP request message again and again, this
>> behavior is different from MS Windows bridging. Could anyone tell me
>> why?
>
> How did you set up the bridge? Show us your interfaces file.
>
> WT
>
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