colinux-users

[coLinux-users] WiFi bridge with XP

[Brendan J S. <Bre...@fa...>]

I have a Dell D800 with WiFi and GigEth networking.
I have colinux-20040710 running with XP in bridged mode.

Is there a way to get my WiFi interface to work with colinux, using XP 
bridging or some other method ???

Does the WiFi interface look like any other Ethernet interface or is it 
a different beast.  If it looks like an ordinary Ethernet then it should 
work with XP bridging without any problems, but I can't get it to work.

Thanks for any help,
Brendan Simon.

Re: [coLinux-users] WiFi bridge with XP

[Doctor B. <do...@gm...>]

In principle a WiFi networking card is no different than any other
networking card when it comes to bridging.  However, many WiFi routers
do not accept packets bridged to another IP address.  I believe this
is done as a security consideration.  It also prevents problems from
users whom naively bridge their WiFi and LAN line, because they think
it will allow them increased bandwidth when plugged into the LAN.

                           Bill



On Sat, 04 Sep 2004 17:20:03 +1000, Brendan J Simon
<bre...@fa...> wrote:
> I have a Dell D800 with WiFi and GigEth networking.
> I have colinux-20040710 running with XP in bridged mode.
> 
> Is there a way to get my WiFi interface to work with colinux, using XP
> bridging or some other method ???
> 
> Does the WiFi interface look like any other Ethernet interface or is it
> a different beast.  If it looks like an ordinary Ethernet then it should
> work with XP bridging without any problems, but I can't get it to work.
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> Brendan Simon.
> 
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Re: [coLinux-users] WiFi bridge with XP

[Ronald P. <pij...@ds...>]

> I have a Dell D800 with WiFi and GigEth networking.
> I have colinux-20040710 running with XP in bridged mode.
> 
> Is there a way to get my WiFi interface to work with colinux, using XP 
> bridging or some other method ???
> 
> Does the WiFi interface look like any other Ethernet interface or is it 
> a different beast.  If it looks like an ordinary Ethernet then it should 
> work with XP bridging without any problems, but I can't get it to work.

I tried both XP bridging using the TAP way, which worked, but requires XP
doing the translation from 192.168.0.255 network to the actual network
you are on.

Later I tried bridging WinPCap style. Initially this didn't work for me
(and I noted this on the Wiki). However, since then I've changed the
setup such that both sides (windows and colinux) use the same mac address
-- as opposed to what is described in the wiki -- and this works fine.

However, I have no idea what problems can arise from using the same mac
address on two different IP-addresses.

Btw. I use static IP-addresses. I can immagine more problems when using
dhcp.

Regards,

Ronald.