Bridge two NICs

December 05th, 2006 - 07:09 pm ET by Ron H | Report spam
I have a home network consisting of a DSL modem to a Linksys wireless
router. There is one pc wired to the router along with a networked printer.
There is one W2K PC on the wireless side. I would like to add a second NIC
to the wireless PC so I can connect some non-wireless network boxes thru it
to the network and the internet. In XP it is a piece of cake to bridge two
NICs but it doesn't appear to be so easy in W2K. Has anyone bridged two
NICs in W2K? I see that there is an option to allow access thru this machine
but it forces the IP address to 192.168.0.1 and drops the wiereless
connection what's that all about?

Cheers
Ron H.



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#1 Phillip Windell
December 11th, 2006 - 12:12 pm ET | Report spam
The bridging on the Linksys box has nothing to do with this and exists for
an entirely different reason.

Ok, if the Wireless PC also has a wired Nic, then you would bridge those two
Nics together and connect the other thing (SBCs?) to the wired nic on the PC
with a Crossover Cable. This is one of those things that is supposed to
"just work". I don't really know of any configuration of the Bridging other
than turning it on or off.

I personally wish that MS would never have developed such a feature,...all
is does is encourage "bad" (no, atrocious) networking habits and techniques.
The proper way to do this would be to either run a cable from the Linksys
NAT box through the building to the Devices in question,...or,...just add
wireless nics to the devices.

Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com

The views expressed are my own (as annoying as they are), and not those of
my employer or anyone else associated with me.

"Ron H" wrote in message
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Phil, I think we have a failure to communicate! One more time:

I HAVE:
1 ea DSL modem
1 ea Linksys WIRELESS router with 4 WIRED ports.
1 ea PC WIRED to the above router
1 ea Printer WIRED to the above router
1 ea PC WIRELESS to the above router ( this PC CAN NOT be wired to the
router! No way to run wires)

I WANT TO ADD:
Several Single Board CPU's NOT WIRELESS CAPABLE located near the WIRELESS
PC using it as a bridge or gateway. It is also my understanding that some
of
the wireless routers out there can be setup as a bridge sort of working
like
the first router in reverse. If the WIRELESS PC were running XP Pro, it
would be a snap to bridge two NICS and have the SBC's wired to the second
NIC through a simple 4 port switch but alas, it is running W2K hence my
question!


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