problems with gargoyle as wlan client bridge

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problems with gargoyle as wlan client bridge

Post by smiler »

Hello,

first, thank you for this great router firmware!
set up as an client bridge was so easy I couldn't believe it.

I don't know wether the problem is really located inside gargoyle, but I have to start somewhere to ask for help ;-)

the strangeness completes itself because in the beginning it worked perfectly, but it stopped without changing something from my side (ok i can't remember that I changed something)

So, lets me start with my setup:

I have a WNDR3700 running with openwrt 10.03.1-rc4 as router and WLAN AP with IP 172.10.1.1. Some clients (Laptops and my PS3) are connected to this device using wlan with wpa2. This works fine without problems.

I have additionally a WRT54GS with latest Gargoyle configured as wlan client bridge (IP 172.20.10.2). On this device is my desktop connected (cable, IP 172.20.50.3)

From the desktop I can connect to the internet I can access the client bridge and the router, But I can't access any other clients, connected to the router (no ping, no ssh, nothing)
From the router I can ping the client bridge, and the clients connected to the client bridge.
From the clients connected with wlan to the router I can't access (ping, ssh, whatever) the client bridge and the clients connected to the client bridge device.

This comes out, when I try to ping from a client in the wlan to the client behind the wlan client bridge:

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smiler@debian:~$ ping arwen
PING arwen.gefaehrten.home (172.20.50.3) 56(84) bytes of data.
From galadriel-wl.gefaehrten.home (172.20.51.2) icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
From galadriel-wl.gefaehrten.home (172.20.51.2) icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
From galadriel-wl.gefaehrten.home (172.20.51.2) icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable
^C

a running tcpdump on the router show the following:

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root@gimli:/etc/config# tcpdump -vv -nn -i any  host 172.20.51.2 and host 172.20.50.3 
tcpdump: listening on any, link-type LINUX_SLL (Linux cooked), capture size 96 bytes
22:16:15.268561 ARP, Ethernet (len 6), IPv4 (len 4), Request who-has 172.20.50.3 tell 172.20.51.2, length 28
22:16:15.268577 ARP, Ethernet (len 6), IPv4 (len 4), Request who-has 172.20.50.3 tell 172.20.51.2, length 28
22:16:15.268615 ARP, Ethernet (len 6), IPv4 (len 4), Request who-has 172.20.50.3 tell 172.20.51.2, length 28
22:16:15.268640 ARP, Ethernet (len 6), IPv4 (len 4), Request who-has 172.20.50.3 tell 172.20.51.2, length 28
22:16:16.268681 ARP, Ethernet (len 6), IPv4 (len 4), Request who-has 172.20.50.3 tell 172.20.51.2, length 28
22:16:16.268699 ARP, Ethernet (len 6), IPv4 (len 4), Request who-has 172.20.50.3 tell 172.20.51.2, length 28

But unfortunately I cannot going further with this information :-(


But one week ago it worked! I installed mediatomb on my desktop and streamed some tv series for watching on my ps3. It worked!
But now it doesn't work anymore! :-(

Can someone help me to solve this problem?
I don't want to blame gargoyle, perhaps it's a PEBCAK or another problem.

Thank you for reading

Best regards

smiler

smiler
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Joined: Sun Jun 19, 2011 3:52 pm

Re: problems with gargoyle as wlan client bridge

Post by smiler »

Hello,

OK I have to answer myself.
The problem I was talking about in the previous post must be a bug in gargoyle or a kind of misconfiguration by myself. With gargoyle 1.42 and now with gargoyle 1.50 everything works fine now, except upnp media streaming and wake on lan (see my other posts)

best regards

Thomas

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