Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:52:48 +0200 From: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, stevefranks@ieee.org Cc: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledomenet.gr> Subject: Re: can't add interfaces to bridge Message-ID: <200809291852.49139.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> In-Reply-To: <539c60b90809290940v6921300er4ee357401266bd1@mail.gmail.com> References: <539c60b90809271052q4acc58c0g8595eaf6f37f2287@mail.gmail.com> <200809291217.54790.nvass@teledomenet.gr> <539c60b90809290940v6921300er4ee357401266bd1@mail.gmail.com>
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On Monday 29 September 2008 18:40:56 Steve Franks wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 2:17 AM, Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledomenet.gr>
wrote:
> > On Saturday 27 September 2008 20:52:43 Steve Franks wrote:
> >> I'm getting the following error - ifconfig: BRDGADD ath0: Invalid
> >> argument
> >>
> >> Given the following commands (which work for my tap interface with
> >> qemu on 7.1, but apparently not with two regular network cards on
> >> 6.3):
> >>
> >> sudo kldload if_bridge
> >> sudo ifconfig ath0 down
> >> sudo ifconfig rl0 down
> >> sudo ifconfig bridge0 destroy
> >> sudo ifconfig bridge0 create
> >> sudo ifconfig bridge0 addm ath0
> >> sudo ifconfig bridge0 addm rl0
> >> sudo ifconfig bridge0 up
> >> sudo ifconfig ath0 up
> >> sudo ifconfig rl0 up
> >> sudo dhclient bridge0
> >> ifconfig
> >>
> >> I get the following output:
> >>
> >> [steve@aire /usr/home/steve]$ bridge
> >> kldload: can't load if_bridge: File exists
> >>
> >> net.link.tap.user_open: 1 -> 1
> >> net.link.tap.devfs_cloning: 1 -> 1
> >> net.link.tap.up_on_open: 1 -> 1
> >
> > I don't see any sysctl related commands in the script above.
> > ?
> >
> >> ifconfig: BRDGADD ath0: Invalid argument
> >> ifconfig: BRDGADD rl0: Invalid argument
> >> DHCPDISCOVER on bridge0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
> >> ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> >> inet 192.168.2.69 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
> >> ether 00:13:f7:4a:0f:a8
> >> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/1Mbps)
> >> status: no carrier
> >> ssid "" channel 3
> >> authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1 wepkey 1:104-bit txpowmax 39
> >> bmiss 7 protmode CTS burst bintval 100
> >> rl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> >> options=8<VLAN_MTU>
> >> inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
> >> ether 00:01:6c:16:44:6f
> >> media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
> >> status: no carrier
> >> plip0: flags=108810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> mtu 1500
> >> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
> >> inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
> >> inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
> >> inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
> >> bridge0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> >> ether ea:57:36:3c:28:0c
> >> priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15 maxage 20
> >> [steve@aire /usr/home/steve]$
> >
> > (I think that)
> > Your wireless card doesn't seem to be in AP mode and if_bridge
> > can only bridge 802.11 interfaces in AP mode with ethernet inter-
> > faces. Two things though:
> > 1) I am not sure if it complains about it as it does above
> > ifconfig: BRDGADD ath0: Invalid argument
> > 2) I do not undestand why it complains about rl0.
> >
> > What are you trying to achieve? Maybe there is some other way...
>
> Just trying to string some old printers & the like off my rl0 and get
> them onto the local wifi net via ath0. ath0 is connected to an AP.
Unless you have 506 devices on those networks, consider using lagg(4). It has
a warning for WPA, but since you use WEP, it should theoretically work.
Now if it would work with WPA and ap mode on any 802.11 device, we can finally
have 'real wireless routers'. ;)
--
Mel
Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
and never get to the software part.
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