Hi all
On my lan/wlan routers, I currently use a bridge interface br0 for use
of the wlan access point that also includes the physical ethernet
interfaces. This all runs nice and well.
In order to implement an unprivileged guest network, I want to add
another bridge, called br1, to which the second access point then could
connect and which would only be able to use the wan interface.
However, /lib/services/bridge refuses to create a bridge without any
interface components. In my case, the wlan interface gets only attached
to the bridge later, by the hostapd daemon.
The following seems to work fine:
# brctl addbr br2
# ifconfig br2 inet 192.168.24.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
I can then ping 192.168.24.1.
Is there an important reason why /lib/services/bridge refuses to create
an empty bridge? If not, would it be ok if I modify the bridge script to
allow for such a scenario?
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