Bridge Multiple Devices & have own IP address

BenPope · n00b Joined: 02 Apr 2005 Posts: 32

Hi,

I'm currently in Windows and have setup a bridge between my 2 onboard network devices and a wireless USB device. This "bridge" is now the device with the IP address assigned by the DHCP server on the network.

We'll forget the specific devices for now as thats a whole other problem, but I'd like to accomplish a similar thing in Linux.

I've looked at bridging, but haven't worked out whether the bridge can be assigned an IP address... from what I've seen, it cannot. So what is the workaround here? I could do NAT/Masq but would rather "bridge" if possible.

Any pointers to resources are much appreciated... I don't know what terms I should be searching for.

Cheers,
Ben

inode77 · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 10:10 pm Post subject:

There are lot of ways to contribute to gentoo, take a look at the bugday list, there's testing, writing new ebuilds.......
http://bugday.gentoo.org/

EDIT: Hmmm strange..... Either I'm stoned or this post got assigned to the wrong thread.
(99.9% Error is human, so I take the blame)

morehead21 · n00b Joined: 27 Apr 2004 Posts: 2

openbsd can act as a bridge/firewall and have an ip assigned to a nic to admin the box from although that makes it less secure than having no ips on it.

UberLord

BenPope · n00b Joined: 02 Apr 2005 Posts: 32

BenPope · n00b Joined: 02 Apr 2005 Posts: 32

Hi,

It took me a while ot try this:

Unfortunately when I do:

UberLord · Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 10:00 am Post subject:

Your baselyaout is to old.

1.11.11 or newer is required .....

BenPope · n00b Joined: 02 Apr 2005 Posts: 32

Wahoo!

Thanks.

All I have to do now is wait for my WG311 to turn up, to replace the WG111 I can't make work (mdiswrapper, AMD64, no 64bit Windows driver), and I'm away.

Cheers!

BenPope · n00b Joined: 02 Apr 2005 Posts: 32

Right.

I have my WG311T, it's detected by the MadWiFi drivers.

I want to be able to have wireless clients use the connection I have on my nForce interface.

I have in /etc/conf.d/net
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modules=( "wpa_supplicant" )
wpa_supplicant_wg311="-Dmadwifi"

brctl_br0=( "setfd 0" "sethello 0" "stp off" )
bridge_br0="nForce wg311t"

config_nForce=( "null" )
config_wg311t=( "null" )

config_br0=( "dhcp" )
dhcpcd_br0="-t 10 -N"

depend_bond0() {
need net.nForce
}

Not entirely sure how to configure /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
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ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=0

eapol_version=1

ap_scan=1

fast_reauth=1

opensc_engine_path=/usr/lib/opensc/engine_opensc.so
pkcs11_engine_path=/usr/lib/opensc/engine_pkcs11.so
pkcs11_module_path=/usr/lib/pkcs11/opensc-pkcs11.so

# Shared WEP key connection (no WPA, no IEEE 802.1X)
network={
ssid="Ben"
key_mgmt=NONE
wep_key0="1D0415AB1995EE409F724F7E9B"
wep_tx_keyidx=2
priority=5
}

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I can't find the SSID with another machine with a wireless card.

I don;t mind whether I use WEP or WPA, but there are loads of options, I just need to know what will work with Windows.

On Windows theres WEP-Shared, or WPA-None with TKIP or AES.

Key index is 1-4 inclusive.

Anybody got any ideas?

BenPope · n00b Joined: 02 Apr 2005 Posts: 32

OK, I managed to get this working with iwconfig - probably best as I was trying to set up WEP anyway.

If anybody wants my config, let me know.