Hi,
I'm not sure whether or not it is possible to do this under Linux at the
moment, but it should be theoretically possible if I've understood the
situation correctly, as it sounds similar to my setup. I have a laptop
running winXP, with a built-in 10/100 network port, and a PCMCIA wireless
card. WinXP has built in bridge support, and I have had no problems in
bridging the wired and wireless ports. My setup is as follows:
| |
Bedroom ---|-----------|---Laptop ===wireless=== AccessPoint--- Other
PC | |
| |
Bedroom Lounge
This works fine. In fact, I control the laptop from my bedroom using the
built-in winXP terminal services.
If there is not currently any way to do this in linux, maybe you could use
XP(as a last resort if you feel like that!).
Hope this is useful.
Jody
From: Andrew Jackson
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 14:04:24 +0000
>On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 07:54:00PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake
>thus: > Hi, > > I am doing a little home project in which I need to bridge
>between a > wired LAN and a wireless LAN. I read some articles describing
>that > bridging in Linux will not work with a wireless LAN interface. Is
>this > true? If this is not true, can anyone explain to me why? >
>
>AFAIK it is necessary for the PCI Wireless card (usually just a PCMCIA one
>in a PCMCIA PCI adapter) to be able to behave as an access point ie "Host"
>Mode. This is because you need the hardware to do the bridging of wireless
>packets to ethernet (as far as I could tell - someone correct me if I'm
>wrong) - the linux bridging then is bridging two "wired" equivalent
>ethernets which it knows how to do
>
>I have this setup at home:
>
>Cable Modem --- eth0 : Firewall/Router : eth1 -- Wired Network |--br0--| |
>| eth2-------------------| wlan0 | Wireless Network
>
>I'm using wireless cards with the Prism2 chipset and the driver of that
>name which supports putting the card into host mode.
>
>
> > ADSL Modem ----| |-- Solaris > | | > Livingroom PC -|-- AccessPoint
>===wireless=== Linux bridge --|-- NT Server > | | | | > | | | | > Living
>room PocketPC Laptop Closet >
>
>Your problem will be that by design two units that act as access points
>will not talk to one another. Your wireless things will happily switch
>between the two, but Solaris and NT Server won't have access to Livingroom
>PC and ADSL Modem.
>
>The only way to get this to work (AFAICS) is to use subnetting and standard
>routing with the Linux wireless card as another client as you have noted.
>Setting up a dhcp relay isn't hard - the required software comes with the
>ISC DHCPD package. I shall have to leave it to someone else to comment on
>the Windows Networking side of things as I know little about it.
>
>HTH (at least a little)
>
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