[LEDE-DEV] Routing two interfaces on same subnet

Baptiste Clenet bapclenet at gmail.com
Tue Jul 5 10:33:02 PDT 2016


Wifi and ethernet are in client mode.
pseudo bridge with relayd? Can you describe a bit?

2016-07-05 19:24 GMT+02:00 Tobias Welz <tw at wiznet.eu>:
> Hi,
> it's just a little problem if you are in in client mode, then you need a
> pseudo bridge with relayd.
> If you use AP mode then you can just bridge LAN and WIFI together, which is
> the default anyway. A factory default will bring you to this setting, turn
> on wifi and you are done.
> Regards Tobias
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [LEDE-DEV] Routing two interfaces on same subnet
> From: Baptiste Clenet <bapclenet at gmail.com>
> To: Tobias Welz <tw at wiznet.eu>
> Cc: lede-dev at lists.infradead.org
> Date: 5.7.2016 19:15:42
>>
>> Hi Tobias,
>> I see, I tried to bridge them, but I got a problem, I'll try again.
>> Isn't it a problem if both interfaces are connected to same network in a
>> bridge?
>>
>> 2016-07-05 19:04 GMT+02:00 Tobias Welz <tw at wiznet.eu>:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>> for me it looks a bit strange, why not put both interfaces together on
>>> Layer
>>> 2 - so bridge them together - which is the default anyway? It looks very
>>> strange to me, to split that stuff on layer 3 with the same subnet, which
>>> now need a lot of hacking to bring it to work again, which i personally
>>> would like to avoid in a production environment.
>>> For me it looks like a "wrong" approach - what is the special need to
>>> doing
>>> it in this way?
>>> What is the problem with using a bridge over these two interfaces which
>>> should just run out of the box?
>>> Regards Tobias
>>>
>>>
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject: [LEDE-DEV] Routing two interfaces on same subnet
>>> From: Baptiste Clenet <bapclenet at gmail.com>
>>> To: lede-dev at lists.infradead.org
>>> Date: 4.7.2016 10:14:26
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On my board, I've got a wifi and an ethernet interfaces on the same
>>>> subnet (192.168.0.0/24). Problem is if ethernet cable is unplugged I
>>>> can't use wifi anymore, see
>>>>
>>>> root at eisox:/# ip route
>>>> default via 192.168.0.50 dev eth0  proto static
>>>> 192.168.0.0/24 dev eth0  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.0.85
>>>> 192.168.0.0/24 dev apcli0  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.0.80
>>>> Here, ethernet is unplugged and wifi connected to other router so I
>>>> can't use the wifi (ping failed in both direction).
>>>>
>>>> If I delete eth route, it works.
>>>> root at eisox:/# ip route del 192.168.0.0/24 dev eth0
>>>> root at eisox:/# ip route
>>>> default via 192.168.0.50 dev eth0  proto static
>>>> 192.168.0.0/24 dev apcli0  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.0.80
>>>> root at eisox:/#
>>>>
>>>> How can I can solve the problem?
>>>> I won't know the status of Wifi and Ethernet so I would like that both
>>>> can work if they are plugged.
>>>>
>>>> Or how to disable one interface is the other one is connected (like if
>>>> ethernet is plugged, allow only ethernet to work, if it is unplugged,
>>>> allow only wifi)
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>
>>
>



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Baptiste



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