Re: wifi ethernet bridge?

Toby Martin wrote:

>On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 Harmon Seaver <[email protected]> wrote:
>  
>
>>   I'm sure someone has done this before, but I get umpteen zillion hits
>>when I try to google it, and none so far have been what I needed. I'm
>>setting up a linux (debian) "access point" that has two Seano cards in
>>it, plus ethernet to my home network. Both wifi cards connect to
>>different remote AP's and get their IP with dhcp.  Eth0 is a static IP
>>on my network. I want to bridge these 3 networks if possible, and get
>>the combined bandwidth of the two cable modems the remote APs are
>>connected to. If that isn't possible, then I'd settle for just one at a
>>time, but so far while I can set up a bridge, I can't figure out how to
>>route it at all, especially since everything I read so far is for
>>setting it up the opposite way ( no IP given to the wifi cards and a
>>static IP given to the bridge, putting it on the ethernet network).
>>    
>>
>
>I use a soekris box with a Seano card to beg service from a company
>across the street.  My side comes off eth0.  For a while I had wlan0 
>set up to get it's address via DHCP, but I noticed that it was SLOW 
>to boot.  Some sort of race state at boot time I image.  Anyway both 
>the wlan0 and eth0 are now static addresses and it works much better.
>
>Inital configuration of the system can be found at
><http://sssg1.whoi.edu/swap>.  I did have to make a few modifications to
>get it to route correctly, mostly in iptables.  If you are interested, I
>can write up the modifications and pass them along.
>
>   Ah, yes, if you would please. And -- after just a quick look -- that looks like a great link too. 
>  
>

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