[Bridge] Ubuntu: network bridging between wireless and wired connection fails

Jochen Hebbrecht jochenhebbrecht at gmail.com
Mon May 4 12:29:36 PDT 2009



richardvoigt at gmail.com schreef:
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> On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Nicolas de Pesloüan 
> <nicolas.2p.debian at free.fr <mailto:nicolas.2p.debian at free.fr>> wrote:
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>     Ok, now we understand what you are trying to do. In particular, I
>     assume
>     the DHCP server is on the subnet of location B (or behind a router
>     connected on this subnet), so the expected DHCP offer will come
>     from the
>     wire interface (eth0) and definitely not from the wireless interface
>     (eth1).
>
>
>
> Looking at "router" in the provided diagram, plus the placement of A 
> and B, I am led to believe that location A is the primary network 
> providing DHCP and outbound access.  Furthermore, Jochen was getting a 
> DHCP assignment over his wireless interface before he tried to enable 
> bridging.
>
> Your suggestion of configuration as a router could work.  But NAT 
> would not if A is the primary location, because the printer would no 
> longer have a address visible to location A.
Indeed, location A is my primary network which provides DHCP.
And yes, you are correct with your last sentence. The printer should be 
visible for location A too :-)

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