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You mean to connect with one adaptor (wifi or wired) to some network and run AP on the other adapter? 

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I plan to implement this function to armbian-config, but until then, check this working example. Except for an extra wireless AP, this is what you want and it can be little simplified since you don't need a bridge when using a single adaptor.

 

/etc/network/interfaces

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auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet manual

allow-hotplug wlx7cdd905518f9
iface wlx7cdd905518f9 inet manual

allow-hotplug br0
auto br0
iface br0 inet static
address 172.24.1.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 172.24.1.0
broadcast 172.24.1.255

bridge_ports eth0 wlx7cdd905518f9

 

 

 

/etc/dnsmasq.conf (you need to install dnsmasq)

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interface=br0                           # Use bridge interface br0
listen-address=172.24.1.1               # Explicitly specify the address to listen on
bind-interfaces                         # Bind to the interface to make sure we aren't sending things elsewhere
server=8.8.8.8                          # Forward DNS requests to Google DNS
domain-needed                           # Don't forward short names
bogus-priv                              # Never forward addresses in the non-routed address spaces
dhcp-range=172.24.1.50,172.24.1.150,12h # Assign IP addresses between 172.24.1.50 and 172.24.1.150 with a 12 hour lease time

 

 

 

 /etc/iptables.ipv4.wlan.nat # add this to rc.local right before exit0: iptables-restore < /etc/iptables.ipv4.wlan.nat 

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# Generated by iptables-save v1.6.0 on Thu Jul  6 18:23:43 2017
*filter
:INPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
-A FORWARD -i wlan0 -o br0 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
-A FORWARD -i br0 -o wlan0 -j ACCEPT
COMMIT
# Completed on Thu Jul  6 18:23:43 2017
# Generated by iptables-save v1.6.0 on Thu Jul  6 18:23:43 2017
*nat
:PREROUTING ACCEPT [0:0]
:INPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:POSTROUTING ACCEPT [0:0]
-A POSTROUTING -o wlan0 -j MASQUERADE
COMMIT
# Completed on Thu Jul  6 18:23:43 2017

 

 

 

Edit and enable net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 in /etc/sysctl.conf

 

We have two wireless adapters, one (wlan0) is connected to the internet via nmcli-connect. That's why it's not in a interfaces config, but you can add it there and forget about Network manager role. The other wireless adaptor acts as an AP and it's optional for this setup since it's a part of a bridge, together with ethernet. There, on the bridge br0, a DHCP service is giving IP addresses and iptables are here to provide masquerading.

 

Remember that access to the machine is possible from both networks.

 

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