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

[Jochen Hebbrecht]

Nicolas de Pesloüan schreef:
>
> When you setup the bridge at the beginning, the br0 interface takes 
> the MAC address of eth1. Then you add eth0 and the bridge takes the 
> MAC address of eth0, because it is lower.
>
> Can you try to use the bridge-hw option of /etc/network/interfaces, to 
> force the bridge MAC address to the MAC address of the wireless 
> interface ? This might solve the communication problem for UBUNTU 
> SERVER... but unfortunately probably not for the bridging function.
>
Now the bridge comes up perfectly, and ubuntu server can ping the 
internet. But nobody on the eth0 of ubuntu server can access the network 
:-( ... so no bridging indeed