Hello,
New in the community, but I have come to stay.
I have a hotspot system that functions well. however the hotspot is activated on my WLAN card. I want to bridge the ether1 interface to the WLAN1 interface with hotspot configured, but the hotspot does not broadcast to the ether1 interface.
Each time I try to do the bridging, hotspot does not function again.
any help about that?
are you changing the interface of the hotspot to the bridge interface? once you bridge ports you should not use the child ports directly.
Hello changeip,
Thanks for your reply. so what you are trying to say is that I can no longer use the wlan interface seperatley as hotspot interface, once I have bridged it with the ether interface?
If that be case, it means I will have to activate the hotspot to the bridged interface?
So How will I prevent hotspot broadcast to the ether interface, and permt only on the wlan interface?
thanks
Please, is anyone there who can help me in this situation. I really need it to solve a major problem.
thanks.
Why do you need to bridge the 2 interfaces? what exactly are you trying to do?
Hi,
let me explain clearly what I am trying to do.
I have a mixed wireless wds bridged network which consist of 3 APs. Each AP has a 5.8Ghz and a 2.4gzh wireless card. At my base station I have a pppoe server where all my 5.8ghz clients connect to as pppoe clients, while on the 2.4 cards I did not include them on the bridging so as to activate hostpot servelet on them. So the 2.4 cards depend on the 5.8Ghz for connectivity.
My problem now is that I want to get maximum benefit from the 2.4ghz. what I mean is that, I want to maintain the hotspot servlet on each of them, but also could connect pppoe client via them (2.4Ghz).
So I thought I could add the 2.4Gh cards to the bridge and prevent hotspot from broadcasting to other interfaces except the 2.4 ghz card.
Hello guys,
Am I out of place or my problem is not well understood. I not getting any reaction.
I need somebody to put me on track.
I dont fully understand what your trying to do still, but maybe I have a hint. Are you wanting to setup a VirtualAP on the 2.4 cards that just allowed PPPoE ? If you just want it for PPPoE users I think you shouldnt use the same hotspot interfaces. If you add a VirtualAp you can then bridge it or route it separately.
Thanks very much Changeip,
Even though you did not understand what i was trying to explain, your ideas gave me the intuition. Infact i just did what you said and i was freed.
This is the issue.
Its just like you have an AP with 2 cards, one is 5ghz and the other is 2.4ghz, and you have a pppoe server.
For your 3 interfaces (ether1, wlan1, wlan2) to communicate directly to the pppoe server, you need to bridged all of them together so that they fall in the same broadcast domain (network) as your pppoe server. Lets say that wlan2 is the 2.4ghz card and wlan1 is the 5ghz card. so I had to bridged the ether1 and the wlan1 and to enable the 5ghz clients connect via pppoe. I did not include the wlan2 (2.4ghz) card on the bridging because I wanted it to be a hotspot servlet which i did.
my problem now was that I wanted to also make 2.4ghz clients also connect via pppoe, and the only way was to add the 2.4ghz card to the bridge.
So what i have done to remedy the situation is just to creat a VAP (with the wlan1 as master) and add it to the bridge. that was all and it works well.
Thanks man.