Rpi Wireless Access Point bridge setup documentation improvement

[jpcornil-git]

Reference: https://github.com/raspberrypi/documentation/blob/master/configuration/wireless/access-point.md (bridge section)

• Remove the following section (this step is not required; it just creates a bridge using the command line but related configuration is not persistent nor a preliminary step for anything):

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Add a new bridge, which in this case is called br0.

sudo brctl addbr br0

Connect the network ports. In this case, connect eth0 to the bridge br0.

sudo brctl addif br0 eth0

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• Given the above you can also remove the bridge-utils installation and replace

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sudo apt install hostapd bridge-utils

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with:

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sudo apt install hostapd

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• In order to handle systems running/conflict with networking.service, I suggest to replace:

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Finally, restart systemd-networkd:

sudo systemctl restart systemd-networkd

You can also use the brctl tool to verify that a bridge br0 has been created.

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with:

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Finally, (re)start systemd-networkd:

sudo systemctl disable networking.service
sudo systemctl enable systemd-networkd
sudo systemctl restart systemd-networkd

You can also use the bridge tool to verify that a bridge br0 has been created.

bridge -d link

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[JamesH65]

This would be much better submitted as a pull request.

[jpcornil-git]

Indeed/agree, just created #1398

[lurch]

Probably better to wait until after #1333 has been merged?

[jpcornil-git]

Sure, not a big deal to rework this on top of it

[jpcornil-git]

Closing old issue (all fixed in https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/wireless/access-point-bridged.md)