Philip A. Prindeville wrote:

> Actually, wpa_supplicant is half-baked.  I never got it running
> completely, and since most people use it as an AP and not a client, it
> got neglected.  If you can debug the config, I'll update the scripts.
> 

Well, as wpa_supplicant is used for wpa/wpa2 authentification it runs on 
every linux box that uses wpa/wpa2 (as far as I know). All my Debian systems 
run wpa_supplicant per default. So, I guess, there are much much more 
wpa_supplicant clients than AP hosts running in the world.

So far, wpa_supplicant is working fine here, except in this special case 
where the interface is a bridge. The problem has been described on the 
internet, but nobody seems to care, as I guess this is a very rare scenario, 
that someone wants to bridge WLAN and not use it as an AP.

Here is a description of the problem:

http://fixunix.com/networking/528617-bridge-wlan0-interface-using-wpa.html

I get the same error messages.


Of course, it would be nice to get that fixed. But that won't be easy, I am 
afraid. And I am missing the necessary Know-How to dig deeper into the error 
messages. :-(

Btw. wpa_supplicant it not a shell script but a binary program. Debugging 
and fixing won't be easy, thus.

> Also, don't use "route add"... that might be going away.
> 
> Use "ip route add" instead.
> 

O.K. thanks, I'll do that. :-)

Cheers,

Michael

> 
> On 07/14/2010 02:30 AM, Michael wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> Just a short question: Where would I add static routes into astlinux?
>>
>> In my LAN I have another (small) router with a subnet. Actually, it is a
>> linux box that simply connects another room via WLAN with the astlinux
>> main router.
>>
>> I would liked to have used bridging instead of nat for the small router
>> but there seems to be a bug in wpa_supplicant that does not allow it to
>> work properly on a bridge.
>>
>> So I need to define a static route into the astlinux router, something
>> like:
>>
>> So, if my main LAN is 192.168.0.0/25 and the subnet is 192.168.0.128/29
>> then I would need to add a route like this
>>
>> route add -net 192.168.0.128 netmask 255.255.255.248 gw 192.168.0.129 dev
>> br1
>>
>> Hmm, I guess I also need to adapt the firewall as it will only forward
>> data from EXTIF to INTIF for the main net... (?!)
>>
>> Or is there a simple way to do it which also adapts the firewall
>> accordingly?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Michael
>>   



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