reasonable enough. here is the situation: I have a duet controller and receiver working fine in wireless mode using either squeeze network or squeeze center.
i want to use the receiver as a bridge and on the receiver side, place either my NAS or initially a wired print print server. i connect the cable between the print server and the receiver. hold down the button on the front until it blinks read. after booting up receiver ethernet lights up orange with blinking green. same with print server. i ping the receiver, everything is fine. i ping the print server, no response. if i move the print server and ping it on a wired connection, it works. print server has a fixed ip on the same top three ip segments (xxx.xxx.xxx.ip) also, after the early mentioned rebooting of the receiver and using the controller to re-setup the receiver, thecontroller gives me the option of a wireless or Ethernet connection, which it does not normally do if nothing is plugged into the receiver's Ethernet socket. so, i believe that the receiver sees the print server, and establishes a valid Ethernet connection to it, regardless of the use of a crossover cable. I also believe that the print server is not 'bridged' onto my wireless network, though the receiver clearly is. thus the bridge connection is not working. so, i go a'googling to see what i can learn, and hidden among the thousands of reviews touting the bridging feature, i find a few pages about a program called something like net:udp that a few people are discussing as a way to 'turn on' the bridging feature. this is a perl shell program, whatever that is, that some fearless person has developed to get this working. i try to install perl on my computer which seems to work, but am less than ignorant about it. i find a few perl scripts on the net:udp program site and down load them and try to "run" them. i have no clue what i am doing and i can not get it working, and am thus frustrated. regardless, i am not really happy about having to learn perl when this feature ought to be automatic, or at least easily turned on via the controller or squeezecenter. thanks for your speedy response,and thanks for reading through to the end of my long post. at some other time i will re-install perl and regenerate the error messages and seek help. hopefully this setting will be user accessible before i end up doing that again. john -- johndewey ------------------------------------------------------------------------ johndewey's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16444 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50635 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
