On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 02:44:35PM -0400, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote:
> We have a 486 machine on our network which currently hosts our
> intranet server (khttpd) and is also our printer server. I have
> recently added an adhoc wireless network interface and I'd like a
> transparent binding of the two networks to allow unrestricted network
> traffic in both directions (using IP Forwarding would restrict traffic
> back out to the wireless nodes).
>
> Is this possible with the bridging tools?
The problem is the wireless end. See the FAQ and mailing list archive for
some background info. Basically, most wireless cards don't want to be used
in this fashion.
> My reading of the Bridging HOWTO suggests that the bridge machine
> vanishes from the network, ie, I'd no longer have any access to that
> machine as an intranet server or printer server, but then again,
> assigning an IP to the bridge suggests that it might work.
It vanishes from the network between the moment that you enslave ethX to
the bridge and the moment you re-assign the IP address to brX.
> I've read the Network and Ethernet HOWTOs, but have to confess that I
> really don't understand the fine details of networking. What has me
> especially confused is setting all interface net addrs to 0, and then
> (optionally) giving the bridge a new IP. Where I'm not clear is on
> the choice of IP for that bridge.
A bridge is transparent to the network. It connects to one subnet, and
has only one 'presence' on that subnet.
> 1) is the bridge IP on a new subnet? ie, if I am bridging
> 192.168.70.0 and 192.168.10.0,
This doesn't work. A bridge is like a hub/switch.
cheers,
Lennert
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