killick Wrote: > Are you saying my router should list the bridge's MAC address at > 192.168.2.4? (and which, wlan or lan?) If that's not what you mean, > then what do you mean? :-) >
Yes, that's normal behavior for a bridge. They often present their own MAC ID to the world for any IP behind them. (The reasons are simple: processing ethernet frames is intensive on fast networks. So a lot of the processing is offloaded to hardware when possible. Under normal conditions, an ethernet card will only tell the CPU, "I have a packet" when the MAC matches. So a bridge needs to either watch for every packet and look up which interface a system is on to figure out if it should pass it to the other side... or just be lazy and replace the MAC on packets it passes and only look for its own. Either way it needs a table of MACs, but the lookups on received packets is a lot easier if it only listens for itself.) The MAC address you're seeing in your router, though, doesn't match the bridge and it doesn't match the SB... I have no idea where that one came from. > > I'm pretty sure it's not a firewall issue because I can get softsqueeze > to run on the other PCs on the network, and because I can obtain an IP > address with the SB2. > Is there anything else on the same side of the bridge as the SB? If not, can you put something there? Maybe the bridge is confused for some reason.. that you see neither the MAC of the SB or the ones that the bridge claims to have really seems odd. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20172 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
