On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Nicolas de Pesloüan <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Jochen Hebbrecht wrote:
> > Nicolas de Pesloüan schreef:
> >>
> >> Can you also explain why you are trying to use bridge ?
>
> > Nicolas,
> >
> > I'm not sure that bonding is the thing I need. I'll explain what I want
> > to do.
> >
> > Please check this image: http://www.jochus.be/brol/networking.png
> > * Purple lines: wired (UTP)
> > * Blue (dashed) lines: wireless
> >
> > So in this building, there are 2 locations. Location A and B. There's no
> > possibility to link them using a wired cable, and I don't like the net
> > adapters who transmits packets using the 50Hz channel.
> >
> > In location A, there's a desktop and a notebook a. In location B,
> > there's a notebook, a server which maintains e-mails, backup,
> > Subversion, Archiva, ... and there's also printer (a network printer).
>
> 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.
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