I kind of agree about it being complicated although bridging sucks
performance wise, but then so does WiFi. But if he can connect Ubuntu
over WiFi to his neighbours WAP then it really is fairly
straightforwardish.

One thing I should probably mention is do you need to bridge the
transporter to the Internet? There may be some tricks needed to get the
ethernet ip addresses to work properly and make the ubuntu box route
things.

If on the otherhand the Ubuntu box is simply the squeezecenter to the
transporter then there ain't much else to do, and I would use static
addresses on the ethernet side for simplicity - eg say wifi is
192.168.0.x then 

Vista
Wireless Lan DHCP  (assigned 192.168.0.x by neighbour WAP)
Ubuntu 
wlan0   DHCP (assigned 192.168.0.x by neighbour WAP)
eth0    Static 192.168.1.2/Netmask 255.255.255.0/Gateway 192.168.1.1
(does not exist)
Transporter
IP Address 192.168.1.3/Netmask 255.255.255.0/Gateway 192.168.1.1

I can if you need show you how to configure the ubuntu box as a
gateway, but this becomes messy as you will then absolutely have to
create static routes, and static IPs on your neighbour's lan - truly
horrible and hard to diagnose from afar.

anyway always happy to help

Cheers


Rajiv


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