On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 7:58 AM, Carlos Amigo H. <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm new using OVS although I have a little bit more experience working with
> Openflow networks and I have a laptop Dell with a Intel wireless interface
> and a Wifi USB adapter D-link. The goal is receive traffic from both
> interfaces (I have in consideration that to do this I have to do address
> rewriting). To achieve this I'm using OVS. The idea is insert flows per
> interface to send all packets from the interfaces to a virtual interface and
> to make sure packets can be sent from the laptop I want to install a flow
> entry to send the packets from the virtual interface to one of the interface
> available.
>
> Firstly to simplify the task and to learn how to use OVS I'm trying to do it
> only using one wireless interface therefore I need two flows that send the
> traffic from the wireless interface to the virtual interface and viceversa.
> So, based on what I've read, I'm doing:
>
> # ovs-vsctl add-br br0
> # ovs-vsctl add-port br0 wlan0
> # ovs-vsctl add-port br0 vi0 -- set Interface vi0 type=internal
> # ifconfig wlan0 0
> # ifconfig br0 192.168.1.11 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
> # ovs-ofctl show br0
> OFPT_FEATURES_REPLY (xid=0x1): ver:0x1, dpid:0000001b77157dd1
> n_tables:255, n_buffers:256
> features: capabilities:0xc7, actions:0xfff
>  1(wlan0): addr:00:1b:77:15:7d:d1
>      config:     0
>      state:      LINK_DOWN
>  2(vi0): addr:fa:09:e7:7f:29:4d
>      config:     0
>      state:      0
>  LOCAL(br0): addr:00:1b:77:15:7d:d1
>      config:     0
>      state:      0
> OFPT_GET_CONFIG_REPLY (xid=0x3): frags=normal miss_send_len=0
>
> # ovs-ofctl add-flow br0 in_port=1,idle_timeout=0,actions=output:2
> # ovs-ofctl add-flow br0 in_port=2,idle_timeout=0,actions=output:1
> # ovs-ofctl dump-flows br0
> NXST_FLOW reply (xid=0x4):
>  cookie=0x0, duration=22.809s, table=0, n_packets=0, n_bytes=0, in_port=1
> actions=output:2
>  cookie=0x0, duration=16.057s, table=0, n_packets=0, n_bytes=0, in_port=2
> actions=output:1
>  cookie=0x0, duration=1210.134s, table=0, n_packets=86, n_bytes=16555,
> priority=0 actions=NORMAL
>
> I can't use the wlan0 to connect the laptop to the wireless network because
> i'm doing a bridge between two ports(vi0 and wlan0) that are in the same
> laptop. I should connect the laptop to the access point through br0, right?.
> But I can't because  br0 is not recognized as a wireless interface. What I
> should do about this?

You need to configure any wireless state directly through wlan0.
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