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I have a cable modem, router, and access point at my house. A neighbor is also connecting wirelessly with his computer. His computer has a wireless card and a 10/100 NIC. He would like to use his computer with the XP Bridging software to connect another computer to the 10/100 NIC. Also, the wireless connection can drop sometimes, so it is difficult to know if the XP Bridge is actually working or not. He will need a crossover cable for the two 10/100 NICs, correct? I am wondering if enabling the bridge reserves the connection on that PC exclusively. The computer that is running the XP Bridge should also be able to connect also, correct? I tried to illustrate it in the attachment.
Yes you will need a crossover cable and yes that will work. I have done it with my laptop get a wireless connection and bridging it (in Xp home) to a desktop. The wireless nic and the nic in the desktop will recieve there IP's from the router. Both the Laptop and Desktop were able to access the network and internet.
If the connection is dropping intermitantly due to weak signal, trying moving the AP or creating a directional slip on for on of the antenna on the AP.
Link for inexpensive easy to make directional slip on.
http://osiris.urbanna.net/antenna_designs/projects/template/
x586
I just can't seem to get this to work. What should the initial adapter IP addresses be before I bridge them? They are static now. Ive tried having them on similar and different subnets, neither seem to work. I have some VPN driver installed also, could that be interfering with the whole deal? After the bridge is created, I can just create a static IP address for the bridge, right?
TTSherpa
07-26-2003, 08:39 AM
The Wifi Card must support promiscuous mode and because of this some of them do not work (Orinoco et al.). Prism based chipsets do work.
Don't worry about pre-bridge IP addresses, I used DHCP, and worked.
Take a look at that.
You can also try XP Internet Sharing thing in case your card is not "promiscuous".
Regards from Spain
The problem according to what you have said is: he is using static IP's. He has to get his IP's assigned by your router, or else it won't work.
I already said that in the previous post though.
"The wireless nic and the nic in the desktop will recieve there IP's from the router."
In other words set both his machines and all his nic's to dhcp . Once machine A gets a connection to your on Wnic, Bridge that to Lnic. Machine B Is plugged into Machine A's Lnic via crossover cable.
machine B will then get it's IP from the router/dhcp and everything works.
Well did you get it going go?