At 11:03 AM 5/25/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Due to lack of hardware, I have a single machine which I'd like to use as
>both a router and a bridge. Namely:
>
>-ppp0 is a link to my ISP, and has an IP address in their range
>-eth0 is a link to my house's wired network, and traditionally has the IP
>address of the "default route"
>-eth1 is a PCMCIA 802.11 card operating in ad-hoc network mode.
>
>The machine in question has bridging enabled, and eth1 is set up as
>127.0.0.1/255.0.0.0; Both interfaces are promiscuous and brcfg has enabled
>bridging. At this point machines on the wireless segment can see machines
>on the wired segment and vice-versa, with one important exception:
>wireless machines can't talk to the IP address of eth0 on the
>bridge/router, nor can that machine talk to wireless hosts.
>
>The idea is the network in the house should be bridged, so it can be
>served by a single DHCP server running on a Sparc on the wired network,
>without a forwarding agent.
>
>Is there any step I'm missing which could make this situation salvageable,
>or do I need to decide on either routing the wireless segment or getting
>another piece of hardware to bridge?
I believe somewhere in the docs it says that IP to the bridge machine
doesnt work if you have bridging enabled...kind of a nasty trade off I think.
Dennis
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