seanadams;197794 Wrote: > No, the bridge is smart and send packets to the right place. That is, by > definition, what bridges do. If it didn't send them to the right place, > it would get stuck in a loop because the packets would just come right > back and it wouldn't know what to do with them any better than it did > the first time around!
Thanks, good to know. I see now that since it has to be smart about the packets coming in over wireless, there's no reason why it should be stupid about the ones coming from ethernet. I moved my server from my wireless router to the SB last night, and will run like this for two reasons: 1) The broadband connection in my apartment is placed in the bed room. This means that my wireless router also sits there, and because of hard drive noise I have been forced to power down my SlimServer at night. Moving the server to my SB in the living room should allow it to run 24/7. 2) Once in a while the wireless strength has been too weak for the SB to stream smoothly. By the way, there's one little glitch in the network setup wizard on the SB3 (firmware 72) that made me move the server back and forth a couple of times. The option for enabling wireless bridging comes after "Connect to SlimServer", which means that there is no way to enable bridging while the server is connected to the ethernet port. To make it work, I had to move the server back to the wireless router and connect a random computer to the ethernet port before I was able to turn bridging on. Then I could remove the dummy computer, move the server to the SB again, and continue my life. I would think this whole issue would disappear if the bridging option was before "Connect to SlimServer" in the network setup. -- bogomipz ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bogomipz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3743 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33922 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
