bonding wifi using dhcp

hseaver93 at alumni.uwosh.edu hseaver93 at alumni.uwosh.edu
Mon Mar 26 07:23:29 PDT 2007


I've tried searching the archives on this without much luck, but  
somebody must already be doing this --
    I've got a box running debian  with two pcmcia wifi nics (seano)  
and using the hostap drivers. They get their ip with dhcp from  
different AP's and I want to bond them. When I try to ifenslave them  
however, it kills the connections. I can then run dhclient for bon0  
and get an ip but it only seems to be doing it for one of the cards.  
That is, I get the same IP I had for one of the cards for bond0 and it  
does work, but nothing for the other
one.
    Is there a way to bond two wifi nics and still have them attaching  
to the remote AP's? I have no access to the remote AP's, so I can't  
set them us static, and I'd prefer to have them set as "magaged" with  
an essid of "any".
     I could do this using three computers, with the first two having  
one wifi nic and one static ethernet nic which connected to static  
ethernet nics on the third computer, and then do the bonding on that  
third computer, but that's a bit cumbersome and uses a lot of  
electicity.



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