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Hi all, i need to join two network segments using two Atheros wireless cards (PCMCIA Proxim Orinoco and D-link DWL-G520) and Madwifi (madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3861-20080903.tar.gz in Ubuntu 8.10) but it doesn´t work.
Information source: UserDocs/WDSBridge - madwifi-project.org - Trac
I did the following: Computer 1
Code:
wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode ap # Create an AP
brctl addbr br0 # Create a bridge
iwpriv ath0 mode 3 # 1 = 802.11a, 2 = 802.11b, 3 = 802.11g
iwconfig ath0 essid wds channel 1
iwpriv ath0 wds 1
ifconfig ath0 up # Bring up the interface and next up to the bridge
brctl addif br0 ath0
ifconfig br0 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up # Bring up the bridge
wlanconfig ath1 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode wds # Now create a station
iwpriv ath1 mode 3
iwconfig ath1 channel 3
iwpriv ath1 wds_add <MAC tarjeta Atheros del PC2>
iwpriv ath1 wds 1
ifconfig ath1 up
brctl addif br0 ath1
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
Computer 2
Code:
wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode ap # Create an AP
brctl addbr br0 # Create a bridge
iwpriv ath0 mode 3 # 1 = 802.11a, 2 = 802.11b, 3 = 802.11g
iwconfig ath0 essid wds channel 1
iwpriv ath0 wds 1
ifconfig ath0 up # Bring up the interface and next up to the bridge
brctl addif br0 ath0
ifconfig br0 10.0.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 up # Bring up the bridge
wlanconfig ath1 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode wds # Now create a station
iwpriv ath1 mode 3
iwconfig ath1 channel 3
iwpriv ath1 wds_add <MAC tarjeta Atheros del PC1>
iwpriv ath1 wds 1
ifconfig ath1 up
brctl addif br0 ath1
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
Test:
Ping doesn´t responds from Computer 1 to 10.0.0.2 or 10.0.0.4.
Ping doesn´t responds from Computer 2 to 10.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.3.
¿How can I know if the WDS bridge is well made and the wifi cards are linked?
Please, someone could help me.
This thread is a month old, but in case you are still wondering why this didn't work: you can't ping across a bridge. Test your connection some other way, e.g. ssh or http.
I'm sure I've seen it stated that ping won't work or is unreliable over a bridge. There's a technical reason for this but I can't find where I saw this explained.
I'll try out your setup soon and let you know if it works for me.
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