With this solution (if it works), both the WAN(private) and LAN(public) network would always remain bridged to the mesh and LAN and WAN ethernet ports.
The script has to determine if it is the gateway, mainly because there must be only one coova-chilli hotspot instance which manages the LAN network. This coova-chilli IS the gateway for the LAN (public) network. Note that it seems that coova-chilli has a cluster mode which is not documented, and seems to allows multiple hotspot instances to work in failover mode. (have to test it)
About translocal and transglobal tables, if I understood correctly, translocal shows only mesh nodes, while transglobal shows all the mac addresses in the arp table?
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 6:45 AM, Gui Iribarren gui@altermundi.net wrote:
It's more.. robust.. if you parse translocal table instead. BUT...
Why not just connect the gateway to the LAN switch (or permanently bridge the WAN, which is equivalent)? Why do you want to "break" the bridge? Under what circumstances does that make sense (or why is it a problem to leave the WAN bridged when the gateway is not directly connected)?