Jeffrey Laramie wrote:
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 10:28, John wrote:
Jeffrey Laramie wrote:
What's the difference between doing the bridging between wireless and cable this way over using an expensive access point in a separate box? That doesn't need separate subnets.
I'm not a routing expert, but I suspect from the outside there is little or no difference. The issue here is that the programs inside the host see 2 interfaces and not 1. I suspect your bigger issue is both interfaces are on the same subnet and both have the same alias. "ping 192.168.74.23" and "ping 192.168.74.31" should work as expected, but "ping General.DMJ-Consultancy.local" will either not work or will only ping one interface. This will cause problems for any app on the host that uses the host aliases as well as any outside program trying to maintain a connection to the host. That said, I think you can make this work if it's configured correctly. Take a look here: http://lartc.org/howto/
Jeff
FYI, my computers are only connected via cable OR wireless, not both so I'm unsure how there can be a conflict.
Are they all routed through the host you're having problems with? Maybe if you post an ASCII diagram of your network it would help.
Jeff
Sorry, not ascii diagram but pdf file I already had. I want to bridge between the wireless and canle sides of J-Net and, eventually, set up a vpn between J-Net and P-Net, but, hey, one step at a time :) Slave is currently cabled to J-Net. Cheers J