WLAN-HostAP-Router-Ethernet LAN

[Anand S. Katti]

Mr. Patrick,

Thanks a lot, i did exactly as said by you and the trick worked :).

I have one doubt here.

The steps we followed below says that we have configured the interfaces
wire and wireless as bridge.

My HostAP is in Master mode. Does this mean that The HOSTAP Access Point

is in BRIDGE MODE?



On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Patrick Tran wrote:

> Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 00:54:49 +0800
> From: Patrick Tran <tptran at swissinfo.org>
> To: Anand S. Katti <askatti at ece.iisc.ernet.in>, hostap at shmoo.com
> Subject: Re: WLAN-HostAP-Router-Ethernet LAN
>
> you don't need IPaddr for either Ethernet Interface or Wireless Interface.
> Create a bridge , add these two interfaces into, bring it up
>
> ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0
> ifconfig wlan0 0.0.0.0
> brctl addbr br0
> brctl addif br0 eth0
> brctl addif br0 wlan0
> ifconfig br0 up
>
> Then request IPaddr for eth0
>     dhclient eth0
> You should have an IPaddr and netmask from your dhcp server. Assign these
> numbers to your br0 and things should work as you wish
>
>  Patrick Tran
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anand S. Katti" <askatti at ece.iisc.ernet.in>
> To: <hostap at shmoo.com>
> Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 12:11 AM
> Subject: WLAN-HostAP-Router-Ethernet LAN
>
>
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I have a strange problem, its like this.
> >
> >
> > DHCP-SERVER Desktop_Machine+HostAP-----Laptop[DHCP CLIENT]
> >    | |
> > ========================================
> >
> >
> > === = Ethernet LAN
> >
> > HostAP is installed on a Machine that is connected to LAN WITH PUBLIC IP.
> > The idea is, on a LAN we are running one DHCP server, A desktop
> > machine with hostap installed is connected to that same LAN with public
> > IP.
> >
> > Now What should be the IP address of the wireless intercace of the hostap
> > on this machine must be? I want to serve wireless CLIENTS with public IP
> > address from DHCP server with hostap acting as Access Point.
> >
> > HostAP machine eth0= 144.16.94.102
> > HostAP        wlan0= ?
> > DHCPserver on LAN configured to give IP= 144.16.94.195 to 144.16.94.200
> >
> > Thanking you,
> > Anand S. Katti
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