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In an idle moment (always dangerous) I thought I'd investigate the feature
of XP that allows one to group network interfaces to create a bridge. Partly
because I'll soon have need of a wireless bridge between two LAN segments,
and partly because I have two machines with 400Mb firewire built-in and a
PCI firewire card - it might be nice to get a faster connection for free.
So, with three ethernet NICs, a 54g wireless card, and a firewire card
stuffed into PC [A] off we go -
DCHP is provided by a broadband router to which [A] is connected via
ethernet. All firewalls disabled. UPnP and UPnP SSDP services enabled (took
me a while to figure that one out), all connections on [A] bridged.
[A] gets an IP address from the router. Excellent.
Connect via ethernet to [A]. gets an IP address from the router.
Excellent. Disconnect ethernet.
Connect via firewire to [A]. Oh oh. does not get an IP address.
Damn. Set to use a fixed IP - still it see the rest of the network.
Change cables, change firewire port. Repeat the above on [C] - same result.
So, has anyone here managed to have any success with a) bridges, b)
networking with firewire?
I'm not even going to start detailing the attempts at bridging using
wireless - that's a story in itself and a much longer and tedious one.
It's nice that bridging seems to work when it's all ethernet, but that's the
one scenario that is of no actual use to me.
of XP that allows one to group network interfaces to create a bridge. Partly
because I'll soon have need of a wireless bridge between two LAN segments,
and partly because I have two machines with 400Mb firewire built-in and a
PCI firewire card - it might be nice to get a faster connection for free.
So, with three ethernet NICs, a 54g wireless card, and a firewire card
stuffed into PC [A] off we go -
DCHP is provided by a broadband router to which [A] is connected via
ethernet. All firewalls disabled. UPnP and UPnP SSDP services enabled (took
me a while to figure that one out), all connections on [A] bridged.
[A] gets an IP address from the router. Excellent.
Connect via ethernet to [A]. gets an IP address from the router.
Excellent. Disconnect ethernet.
Connect via firewire to [A]. Oh oh. does not get an IP address.
Damn. Set to use a fixed IP - still it see the rest of the network.
Change cables, change firewire port. Repeat the above on [C] - same result.
So, has anyone here managed to have any success with a) bridges, b)
networking with firewire?
I'm not even going to start detailing the attempts at bridging using
wireless - that's a story in itself and a much longer and tedious one.
It's nice that bridging seems to work when it's all ethernet, but that's the
one scenario that is of no actual use to me.