help to bring up an MPP

[Chris Crawford]

I'm going to jump on board the MPP discussion.

Does anyone have a recommended way to test whether or not the MPP is actually
working?  The Howto mentions that you cannot ping across the bridge...

-Chris

On Wed 05/06/09 12:34 PM , Andrey Yurovsky andrey at cozybit.com sent:
> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Rekik Hanen  k at yahoo.fr> wrote:> Hi,
> > I tried to bridge a mesh interface with ethernet
> interface to construct a> MPP. I followed the MPP directions in 
> http://open80211s.org/trac/wiki/HOWT,> but il seemed they can't comunicate each
> other.My problem is: if I want to> activate a mesh interface, I had to desactivate
> the network with " killall> NetworkManager". So, I can't activate
> simutaneously ethernet interface with> mesh interface.
> 
> Typically, killing NetworkManager brings down (ie: "ifconfig eth0
> down") all interfaces.  Having done so, bring them back up by
> hand,ex:
> 
> sudo ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.20 up
> 
> would bring eth0 back up and assign it an IP address.
> 
> > Can anyone help and give me the steps to setup
> up a bridge between a mesh> interface and, an other Ethernet
> interface.> thanks
> 
> I suggest:
> 1) kill NetworkManager
> 2) bring your Ethernet interface back up
> 3) create a mesh interface as per the HOWTO
> 4) create an MPP bridge as per the HOWTO
> 
> Please note the limitations discussed in the HOWTO as well.
> 
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