[YLUG] Interesting Networking Problem

[Phillip Michael Jordan]

Paul Gibbs wrote:
> On Monday 08 May 2006 22:06, Phillip Michael Jordan wrote:
> 
>> As others have pointed out, I think you shouldn't send the interfaces
>> down before bridging. I think this messes with the wireless extensions
>> in a way that dissociates you from the access point. brctl is unlikely
>> to know about wireless cards, and even less about which SSID and WEP/WPA
>> key to use, so you'll need to ensure the wireless card is associated.
> 
> I have a bridge set-up at work. (Can't check it 'cos I'm off on paternity 
> leave ATM). But, IIRC the interfaces are bridged *before* the network is 
> bought up, and when you bring the network up you do it with "ifup br0". The 
> rest of the operating system then sees br0 as its single network interface 
> even though underneath it is running several network cards. All further 
> networking needs to be configured to use br0.

I realise this, but I doubt br0 will have wireless extensions? The way I
have understood it is that wireless settings are lower-level than
ethernet packets, and therefore lower-level than the bridge setup?
Setting the ESSID of a wired LAN doesn't make any sense, and it probably
doesn't for a bridge either.

~phil
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