[Madwifi-users] wds bridging

[JOEL L. <joe...@sh...>]

Hi,

I am trying to make a transparent bridge between two xscale boards using madwifi and bridge utils.  

For the life of me I cannot get wds to work properly.  After setting the wds flag to 1, I can get the two boards to talk to each other wirelessly, but they wont forward whats coming onto their ethernet ports on.  I am using madwifi 0.9.3. linux 2.6.20.  I have got the bridging working nicely, its just the wds I am having problems with.

For the AP I am setting it up like so.

wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode ap
iwconfig ath0 essid bridgeTest
iwpriv ath0 wds 1
brctl addbr br0
brctl addif br0 ixp0
brctl addif br0 ath0
ifup br0
ip addr add 192.168.100.80/24 dev br0

For the STA I am setting up like:

wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode sta nosbeacon
iwconfig ath0 essid bridgeTest
iwpriv ath0 wds 1
brctl addbr br0
brctl addif br0 ixp0
brctl addif br0 ath0
ifup br0
ip addr add 192.168.100.81/24 dev br0

Am I missing something?  How can I go about troubleshooting.  I have experimented with forwarding delays and stp, but nothing has had any affect.

Can anybody help?

Thanks,

Joel Lindsay