Wireless bridging tutorial

Sean Crago cragos at gmail.com
Mon Oct 13 21:08:34 CDT 2008


>> really shouldn't be complicated at all. Wireless ethernet bridges tend
>> to be absolutely trivial to setup.
>
> I wish I knew why it wasn't working then.  I set it up, each side says
> it connected to the other.  But packets don't seem to get through =/

What's on the other end?  Have you SSH'd into Tomato and looked at the
logs yet? Its biggest failing at the moment is adequate error
reporting. You may want to take a peak for yourself to see what it's
doing wrong.

By the way, the way these things SHOULD work is that you end up with a
true Ethernet bridge, just like a rather low-level VPN. Should be
seamless and work just fine, given a connection to the WAP. That said,
if you can't get anything figured out there are dedicated wireless
ethernet bridges out there for a pretty minimal cost.

-Sean


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