On Friday 14 April 2006 21:37, Fabian Keil wrote: > > killall devd [to stop it running dhclient] > > /etc/rc.d/netif stop ath0 > > ifconfig bridge0 create > > wpa_supplicant -i ath0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf > > ifconfig bridge0 create > > ifconfig bridge0 addm ath0 > > dhclient bridge0 > > What's the intention behind the last step > and why did you have to create bridge0 twice?
Sorry I made a mistake transcribing my steps.. I only created it once :) I tried the wired interface on my laptop and it worked fine so I think bridging confuses wpa_supplicant - I restarted wpa_supplicant in the foreground and it gave me errors the moment I added it to the bridge. > If you didn't already, you have to set net.inet.ip.forwarding. Ahh OK. > Depending on your firewall setup you might have to disable > some of the net.link.bridge sysctls as well. I don't have any firewalls in the kernel for simplicity at this stage. Thanks for your help. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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