Ik have a 3Com 3CRWE737 96B-E1 networkcard (PCMCIA in a PCI adapter, indeed). I don't know if this card supports Host mode. As according to you, the card in hostmode doesn't talk to the accesspoint, maybe I should fall back to a routed solution and get my pocket PC to use WINS.
Thanks, Perjan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 3:04 PM Subject: Re: [Bridge] Bridging IEEE 802.11b to wired ethernet - possible? > 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) > > Andrew > _______________________________________________ > Bridge mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/mailman/listinfo/bridge _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/mailman/listinfo/bridge
