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<DIV><FONT size=4>Hi all:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>my question is when the network topology is like a
ring,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>WDS seems not work because of STP is not work.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>My network topology should be like
this:<BR><BR>
AP1<BR>
/
\<BR>
/
\<BR>
/
\<BR>
HUB
| (wireless;WDS)<BR>
\
/<BR>
\
/<BR>
\
/<BR>
AP2<BR><BR>AP1 (Access Point 1), has two interfaces, eth0 for wired and wlan0
for<BR>wireless, and virtual wlan0wds0 of wlan0 for WDS.<BR>AP1 and AP2 connect
direct with a hub by ethernet.<BR><BR>I setup the AP use the following commands
to establish this topology:<BR><BR>AP1:<BR>brctl addbr br0<BR>iwpriv wlan0
add_wds xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx(wlan0MAC of AP2)<BR>brctl addif br0 wlan0wds0<BR>brctl
addif br0 wlan0<BR>brctl addif br0 eth0<BR>ifconfig wlan0wds0 0.0.0.0
up<BR>ifconfig wlan0 0 0.0.0.0 up<BR>ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 up<BR>ifconfig br0
192.168.168.126 up<BR><BR>AP2:<BR>brctl addbr br0<BR>iwpriv wlan0 add_wds
xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx(wlan0MAC of AP1)<BR>brctl addif br0 wlan0wds0<BR>brctl addif
br0 wlan0<BR>brctl addif br0 eth0<BR>ifconfig wlan0wds0 0.0.0.0 up<BR>ifconfig
wlan0 0 0.0.0.0 up<BR>ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 up<BR>ifconfig br0 192.168.168.252
up<BR><BR>And both bridge STP status is enable.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT size=4>But in this topology, STP seems not work; STP
should learn<BR>the network topology to prevent LOOP of network,but it did not
learn(i<BR>guess).<BR>so,it cause broadcast storm on the
network.<BR></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT size=4>I have already test STP function in only
wire situation:<BR><BR> PC1<BR>
/
\<BR>hub1 hub2<BR>
\
/<BR> PC2<BR><BR>STP is work well. There is no
broadcast storm at all.<BR><BR>I dont know why! Help me
please!!</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT size=4></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Lee Lai</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>