Hello,

I bought a server with two gigabit-ethernet-ports and a Wlan-N-Card. I would like to bridge a WLAN AP with one of the Ethernet ports.
hostapd seems to be useful for this, but I could not find a tutorial on how to setup it with a dual-LAN-system.
I guess I have to setup the AP with hostapd and then create the networking rules, but I do not know where and how the latter needs to be done.
Thanks in advance

Info:
Debian - (how to get version info?)
2x Intel Gig-LAN (onboard)
Broadcom WLAN N (minipci-e)

The server has not even arrived yet but it should be here tomorrow or the day after. That's why I do not have more detailed info on the hardware, sorry.

Edit:
Wondered if that was enough info, so here my beautiful drawing
http://www.directupload.net/file/d/4...9qswvv_png.htm

You would set up the wireless access point first using hostapd. Then you would use the bridge-utils packages, specifically the brctl command to bridge the interfaces.

You can also set up the bridged NIC using network manager from the command line, since I know that network manager comes installed on most Debian systems.

Tutorial to set up WiFi AP: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/debian-...-access-point/

Tutorial to set up bridged NICs in Debian: https://wiki.debian.org/BridgeNetworkConnections

I am not in the habit of simply telling people exactly what commands to type in to the terminal. Please read the documentation and post back here with any help you need or questions you have to ask.

Thank you, that helped.

I am really content with how it works right now. Test was also successful: pulling out one eth-cable and see if server is down and WAP still up, then the other and check if WAP down and server still up. Thanks again. I will now revert configurations I made following the tutorial to see what they do.

EDIT:
Okay, there is one thing that bugs me. Is it possible to route a packet out of the bridge? As it is now, a packet from the wlan-interface addressed to the servers first ethernet port will exit the second ethernet port and enter the first one by being routet by the switch.

EDIT2: here are some of my current configs:
/etc/network/interfaces
/etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf:
hostapd is started at boottime

I believe you need to use the POSTROUTING switch in IPTables to route the traffic on the WAP to the correct place.