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Topic: Spanning tree, and spanning tree over wireless?  (Read 1319 times)
« on: September 24, 2007, 04:14:32 »
enigma *
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I have numerous soekris net4801 devices here.  Each one has two miniPCI atheros wifi cards in them, one via a PCI to miniPCI adapter.  What I want to do is connect all of these boards together, in what will eventually be a ring/mesh network.  Meaning that I need spanning tree enabled.  I also would really like to use the 2nd wifi card on each board as a redundant radio link to a certain other soekris board.

I have this set up on a custom linux build at the moment, so I know what settings worked there, but the software isn't quite stable at the moment.
The first wifi card should act as a regular access point.  Nothing special really, except it needs WDS enabled.  The second one, however, is a client.  I want to also use WPA-PSK, so I need to run wpa_supplicant (I think?  I'm used to linux here).  I run wpa_supplicant with the -b option to specify a bridge under linux, and also specify a bssid in the wpa_supplicant.conf file.

So, my question is, does m0n0wall support wireless client devices, and does it support bridging them while using WPA-PSK security?  And does m0n0wall bridging use the spanning tree protocol?
« Reply #1 on: September 26, 2007, 16:00:05 »
iloose2 *
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I'm having the same problem with Spanning Tree, but with Soekris 4826 boards running Pyramid Linux.

 
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