wifi ethernet bridge?

[Ken]

On 2/14/06, Harmon Seaver <hseaver at gmail.com> 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).



To my knowledge none of the open source wireless drivers support layer2
bridging while the card is client mode. They support it in Master/AP mode.
Someone else may be able to confirm that this is still the case, as it has
been a good year or so since I have looked at this scenario. Your best bet
is probably going to be getting client bridge hardware. The linksys wet11
comes to mind, but there are many others.

-Ken



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