On Friday 01 February 2008, Andreas Maus wrote:
> Hello everybody.
>
> Im trying to setup an bridge between WLAN and LAN on my Asus 500gP.
>
> So well I thought its just a bridge so I don't assign any IPs -
> neither to the interface assembling the bridge nor the bridge itself.
>
> And I was suprised that the bridge was assembled but not brought up:
>
> [... snipp ...]
> # bridge LAN and WLAN
> auto br0
> iface br0 inet manual
>         bridge-ifaces eth0.0 eth2
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ip  link show
> [... snipp ...]
> 8: br0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop
>     link/ether 00:1b:fc:57:b3:be brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> [... snipp ...]
>
> Both interfaces of br0 are brought up.
>
> But if I assign a IP to the br0 interfaces (not tested if I
> assign a IP to one of the interfaces of the bridge)
>
> [... snipp ...]
> # With an IP address:
> # bridge LAN and WLAN
> auto br0
> iface br0 inet static
>         bridge-ifaces eth0.0 eth2
>         address 172.16.211.127
>         netmask 255.255.255.0
>         broadcast +
>
> The br0 interface is brought up:
>
> [... snipp ...]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ip  link show
> 8: br0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue
>     link/ether 00:1b:fc:57:b3:be brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> [... snipp ...]
>
> So a bridge is a Layer 2 connection of several interfaces why do I need
> to assign a IP ?

There's no need to assign any ip adresses to get the interfaces up.
Do you use the latest stable or trunk?

Bye
Christian
>
> So if there is anyone out there to give me some enlightment on this case?
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Andreas.



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