Hi. On Sun, 06 Mar 2016 12:33:57 -0500 timothy.marion@marion.systems wrote:
> I can only find 1 reference to using wlan0 for bridging. > https://wiki.debian.org/BridgeNetworkConnections This WEB Site and it > talks about using ebtable. Is ebtable the only way to have a bridge for > KVM with wlan0 ? No. ebtables come after the bridge is set up. Consider ebtables a form of access control. It's not mandatory to use them by any means. > I refuse to believe I am the only human on earth trying to do KVM on a > laptop with wlan0. Somebody must have done this already. I cannot be > the first person to want to bridge an wlan0 interface. Of course you're not the first. So... > wpa-psk <pre-shared-key was here> First, I suggest you to change your WPA authentication right away, as you've just shared your WPA key with all the world. Second, > auto br0 > iface br0 inet static <some usual interface stanzas> > bridge_ports eth0 This part is wrong. You want to bridge some interfaces to wlan0 via br0, yet you don't include wlan0 into the bridge. The correct way of doing this should be: bridge_ports eth0 wlan0 Assuming, of course, that you'll never want to have different IPs on eth0 and wlan0. Third, > Mar 06 12:08:43 beeker networking[2344]: Configuring network > interfaces...can't add wlan0 to bridge br0: Operation not supported something strange goes here. You've told interfaces(5) not to add wlan0 to br0, yet there's someone who tries to do it. Is it the manual invocation of "brctl addif"? "can't add wlan0 to bridge br0: Operation not supported" should be easily defeated with good old: iw dev wlan0 set 4addr on I.e. edit your /etc/network/interfaces like this: auto wlan0 iface wlan0 inet manual wpa_ssid XXX wpa-psk YYY pre-up /sbin/iw dev wlan0 set 4addr on Reco
