On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Alex Samad <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 02:44:42PM +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> Hello List ! >> >> Alex Samad wrote: >>> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 12:03:47AM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: >>>> Deephay wrote: >>>>> Greetings all, >>>>> >>>>> I have two NICs on my laptop: eth0 and wlan0, I tried to bridge them >>>>> and use a ad-hoc connection with my cellphone to share the internet >>> >>> I don't think bridging of wireless and ethernet works, why not just >>> route the packets! use iptables to setup nat if you need >>> >>> >> >> Indeed bridging with wireless is not a good idea: I experienced it ! >> Nevertheless, I have not yet understand in detail the suggested alternative: >> is there an howto somewhere about it ? > > its just 2 networks and if the default gateway doesn't have a route back > to the wireless then you need NAT (from iptables) > > have a google for linux routing
normal iptables NAT won't do in this case, the gateway machine is gonna ask the MAC address of the remote Ad-Hoc device through eth0, which won't get an anwser at all, that is why I need a damn bridge. But finally I found the solution, layer 3 ARP bridge: parprouted. I just do not understand why a 2009 linux box won't do a 2001 win XP job (wired - wireless bridge). > >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Jerome >> >>> > > [snip] > >> > > -- > "You know, when I was one time campaigning in Chicago, a reporter said, > 'Would you ever have a deficit?' I said, 'I can't imagine it, but there would > be one if we had a war, or a national emergency, or a recession.' Never did I > dream we'd get the trifecta." > > - George W. Bush > 06/14/2002 > Houston, TX > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkl/9M8ACgkQkZz88chpJ2NryACeOofXKahmfLXZry2n2sVVHtw5 > am4AoI7S6AY+DaOa7EuSp9DR05WOhB7r > =koI6 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
