Hi, This is most likely due to the fact that you're using wavelan cards. Please read the FAQ at http://bridge.sf.net/faq.html
cheers, Lennert On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 01:20:28PM +0200, Dmitri Gofmekler wrote: > Hello All, > > I'm urgently need help. > Here's my story: > > It not working for me... > Linux-box, that should act as a bridge has an ISA 3Com 509 and Compaq WL200 > (Prism2) wireless 11Mb cards. > Normal TCP/IP communications works well, machine acts as a router withou any > problems, but when I'm trying to > turn on the bridging, using the following commands got exactly from HOWTO > > brctl addbr br0 > brctl addif br0 eth0 > brctl addif br0 wlan0 > ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 > ifocnfig wlan0 0.0.0.0 > ifconfig br0 192.168.0.112 up > > Now the interesting situation. Windows box can not be pinged neither from > the wired Ethernet nor from Linux box (bridge). From the Windows machine > I'm unable to ping both Linux-box and all wired LAN. > I've checked the ARP table before and after trying to connect thru the > bridge > and foung that arp works well, e.g. ARP table collects the correct addresses > of LAN cards in both ethernet segments. So it seems that ARP packets goes > thru > the bridge but IP packets - no. > > I'll be glad to hear any advices. > > Thanks in advance for all answers, > Sincerely yours, > Dmitri Gofmekler. > > > _______________________________________________ > Bridge mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/mailman/listinfo/bridge -- I are sigfile disease!! All your quote are belong to us. Copy us every "sig"! _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/mailman/listinfo/bridge
