help to bring up an MPP

[Andrey Yurovsky]

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Chris Crawford <cpc5 at buffalo.edu> wrote:
> 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...

Hi Chris, what would you like to test?  Given the issues mentioned in
the HOWTO, MPP functionality is currently rather limited.  Patches are
very much welcome : )

> -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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