Linux Ethernet Bridge

Markus Feldmann | 23 Apr 2012 15:11

wlan0 will not be automatically added to br0

Hi All,

i want my wlan0 added automatically to br0 on my Debian Squeeze Server. 
At the moment the ports eth[1-3] are running over br0. I am using kernel 
3.2.9. The port eth0 is only for internet. eth[1-3] are for my local 
network at home. When i manually add wlan0 to br0 i can built up a 
communication between my laptop and my server. Therfore i execute the 
command <brctl addif br0 wlan0> on my server.

Here are some configs:
/etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto br0
iface br0 inet static
     address 192.168.0.186
     netmask 255.255.255.0
     broadcast 192.168.0.255
     bridge_ports eth1 eth2 eth3 wlan0
     bridge_ageing 300
     bridge_fd 1

# Mapping to DSL- oder DHCP-Router
mapping eth0
     ...

/etc/default/hostapd
DAEMON_CONF="/etc/hostapd.conf"

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Arun Khan | 7 Jun 2012 18:40

Re: wlan0 will not be automatically added to br0

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Markus Feldmann <feldmann_markus <at> gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> i want my wlan0 added automatically to br0 on my Debian Squeeze Server. At
> the moment the ports eth[1-3] are running over br0. I am using kernel 3.2.9.
> The port eth0 is only for internet. eth[1-3] are for my local network at
> home. When i manually add wlan0 to br0 i can built up a communication
> between my laptop and my server. Therfore i execute the command <brctl addif
> br0 wlan0> on my server.
>

.... snip ...

For an ALIX box, I was looking at this link
<http://wiki.debian.org/BridgeNetworkConnections>  under "Bridging
with a wireless NIC"  and this
<http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/wireless-wired-bridge-on-debian-squeeze-883201/>.

However, I switched to openWRT so I have no personal experience with
the implementation on Debian.  I would suggest that you try Voyage
Linux (Debian based).   It comes with a quite a few sample
configurations to setup an AP and you may be able to extend the
scripts to meet your requirements.

HTH
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-- 
Arun Khan