From: Carlo Pires (carlo_at_uganet.com.br)
Date: 2002-06-19 13:11:39 UTC
Antti Seppänen wrote:
>Hello!
>
>I have been trying to build a Linux box with two wireless interfaces using
>Lucent Cardbus bridges (PCI1410 chip) and D-Link DWL-650 PC cards. One of
>the interfaces should act as an access point and another one should be a
>client for real WLAN access point (Lucent AP-1000). I would like to bridge
>packets from access point interface to the rest of the network through
>client interface. (See the diagram below.)
>
>laptop_1 <---> AP_interface_in_linux <---> client_interface_in_linux <--->
>Lucent_AP-1000 <---> laptop_2
>
>Is this kind of bridging possible to implement? I have had problems getting
>ping icmp replies back at laptop_1 (Ping from laptop_1 to laptop_2). Ping
>icmp requests seem to travel through the bridge as I can see them arriving
>at laptop_2 with tcpdump. Also ping replies are sent by laptop_2 and also
>Lucent_AP-1000, but nothing is received at client_interface_in_linux.
>
>Should bridging work in my case when I have another interface in "Managed"
>mode and not in "Master" mode or is my problem something else?
>
>BR,
>
>Antti
>
>
I have this working fine here. With two ISA Vadem + 2 orinoco silver
card and orinoco_cs driver. With hostap driver I only know that is
possible (2 LG PCI Card had been configured correctly in my box), but I
did not test in a production environment, as I make with orinoco_cs.
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