On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 9:35 PM, ray <r...@aarden.us> wrote: > I would like to determine how to configure dom0 to use either wireless or > wired connections automatically depending upon which are available. > > I am trying to get Xen4.9 up and Debian 9 on a Toshiba laptop with only a > wireless and a wired (enx0) connection through a docking station. I am > trying to use: > https://wiki.debian.org/BridgeNetworkConnections#Bridging_with_a_wireless_NIC > This laptop is a personal workstation implementing a variety of vms and OSs. > Testing wireless internet connection is using JetPack 4G AP and I intend to > use various public/private wireless APs. > > It seems the way to do this is to bond wlan0 and eth0 as bond0, then build a > bridge for domus with bond0. Etables requires the bridge MAC to be defined > in the rules. I do not know how to assign a MAC to the bridge since I don't > know which interface came up. > > How can I set up bridging without knowing which interface is up? > > Thanks, > Ray >
I don't know how much help this will be, but here's my recent adventures in setting up a bridge to use my netbook as a wireless access point: Started here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/06/msg00153.html Continued here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/06/msg00360.html And here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/06/msg00459.html Here's where Dan Ritter suggested a bridge configuration that worked for me: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/06/msg00506.html It's a long story, and I think what I am doing is different from you're trying to do, but something in there may be useful. (I was trying to use etables and gave up, by the way.) I'll note that the log messages were confusing. Even now, the bootup messages say eth0 is not configured and isn't coming up, but the bridge is functioning. -- Joel Rees One of these days I'll get someone to pay me to design a language that combines the best of Forth and C. Then I'll be able to leap wide instruction sets with a single #ifdef, run faster than a speeding infinite loop with a #define, and stop all integer size bugs with my bare cast. http://defining-computers.blogspot.com/2017/06/reinventing-computers.html More of my delusions: http://reiisi.blogspot.com/2017/05/do-not-pay-modern-danegeld-ransomware.html http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/p/novels-i-am-writing.html