----- Original Message ----- From: "Diego" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 6:52 PM Subject: [Bridge] Strange bridge configuration?
> I tried to do what you are trying to but it didn't work. I don't know if it > could have worked but I got to the point in which the bridge was up (i > couldn't access the firewall) and my pc sitting behind it seemed to receive > arp shit from my cable-modem (other people receiving addresses and so on). > But it didn't give me an ip adress when I put my lan card to get an address > from dhcp. > Maybe I should have reset my cable-modem so that it had given me an ip > (maybe it was fed up of having the firewall arp address in its memory). > I didn't reset it because I was tired. I didn't try to mix both firewall and > bridge because that was way too difficult for me mostly because of exams and > other problems. My experience with my cable modem: it acts as kind of a firewall in the sense that it only allows connections with the MAC address of the nic connected to the modem. So a bridge directly behind a cable modem is pretty much useless. You need a router, so that the MAC address will be that of the router's nic and not of the other computer's nic (located behind the router). Also, if you want to connect a different nic to the cable modem, and thus with a different MAC address, you need to reset the modem. I just pull the power plug out and wait a while... cheers, Bart _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/mailman/listinfo/bridge
