Bridging Blues

[Christopher Evans]

Just to be sure, you are also running hostapd?

On Friday, October 17, 2003, at 08:13  AM, bhaskar ghosh wrote:

> Hi ,
> Can anybody share the experience of bridging the
> HostAP to wired network?
> wireless interfaceis  "wlan0 ", and I have another
> wired interface " eth1"
> When I start bridging by
>
> brctl addbr br0
> brctl addif br0 eth1
> brctl addif br0 wlan0
>
> ifconfig wlan0 0.0.0.0 up
> ifconfig eth1 0.0.0.0 up
> ifconfig br0 192.168.3.1 up
> the configurations are set.
>
> but when i look for wlan Ap using command "iwconfig"
> there is no trace of wlan0 AP.
>
> only when explicitly i am running command "iwconfig
> wlan0 " only the wlan0 AP info is available.
>
> Can anybody tell me where is the mistake???
>
>
> Thanx.
>
>
>
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