Re: Bridging wifi to ethernet

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Craig McLean wrote:
> Douglas Phillipson wrote:
> 
>>>My LUG recently had to move to a Library with WIFI access only.  Running
>>>FC4 on my HP Pavilion laptop, how specifically, can I bridge my WIFI
>>>interface (eth1) over to my eth0 interface so I can hook in all the
>>>wired ethernet users to get access to the WIFI networks DHCP server?  I
>>>don't have to recompile a Kernel I hope...  I can still use my laptop
>>>normally while I'm bridging for everyone else I hope?
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>
>>>Doug P
>>>
> 
> 
> Doug,
> Assuming your wireless device can be placed in promiscuous mode and have
> it's source address spoofed then you should be able to use the "bridge"
> module.
> The "bridge" module should be in FC4 by default, check out the manpages
> for brctl and http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/Bridge
> 
You may also want to read the HOWTO in the bridge-util
documentation. It explains how to set up the bridge.
You have to bring up eth0 and eth1 slightly different,
and then bring up the bridge. The bridge gets the IP
address, not the individual interfaces.

Mikkel
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for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!


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