[Gllug] Bridge problems (Ubuntu)

[John Edwards]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 09:29:31PM +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
<snip>
> Cheers. This appears to work. I am only saying appears because the
> wireless bit seems to be having some difficulty but I don't think that is
> necessarily the bidge.
> 
> I had some problems with my commodity router, but once I fixed them and
> ensured br0 was assigned the IP previously given to eth0 it worked.
> 
> Anybody a hostap guru? It seems to be up - but I cannot associate with it.
> Do I need something in /etc/network/interfaces ?

The first page found on a Google search of "hostapd" and "bridge"
is this page:
     http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/hostapd

Which suggests that you need to tell hostapd that it is part of
a bridge by adding "bridge=br0".


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