Mark Lanctot;172337 Wrote: > I'm amazed this all works? > > Because this is a convoluted wireless arrangement. Say the SB3 wants > to send something to SlimServer. It can't do this over its crossover > cable because you've told it to use the wireless interface and bridge > the Ethernet port. So it looks for SlimServer out over the wireless > interface. > > The router sees the packets destined for SlimServer and retransmits > them. >
That is not what should happen at all. When the SB3 is operating in bridging mode, it keeps track of who is on the ethernet side and who is on the wireless side - it knows where to send a packet. Telling it to connect wirelessly just means that you want to configure the wireless interface, but when bridging is enabled, both interfaces are "equal". In fact it is equivalent to a three-port ethernet switch. One interface is the ethernet port, one is the wireless port, and one is "virtually" connected to the SB3's IP stack. So although that setup sounds convoluted, it really isn't... as far as the internal bridge is concerned, there is nothing unusual about it, and at the IP level none of it is even visible. -- seanadams ------------------------------------------------------------------------ seanadams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31850 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
