Bridging problem, anyone? :(

[Shawn Ramsey]

I am having a problem with bridging. I am using a 802.11g wireless adapter,
and bridging to a 100Mbit card to provide wired ethernet/internet to my
other devices. It does work MOST the time, but what is happening is the
bridging box will stop passing traffic for specific machines, until I PING
the the bridging boxes IP. It seems this happens after so much time has
passed with no internet traffic on a particular machine. Anyone ever run
into a problem like this? This particular XP system has automatic updates
turned on, running SP2 etc and every other "critical" update.

Basically, when it works, it works perfectly. But then a certain system that
hasnt generated any traffic, will then be unable to get to the internet
until I ping the IP address on the bridge box. ForceCompatibilityMode is
enabled. It does not work period when it is not.

TIA

 

[Guest]

Hiya,

I have been experiencing the same problem however I have smaller network @
home. My setup is:
Main computer - this has 2 network cards and a wireless card
one network card is where I get the internet from my cable ISP. This is ICS
shared. The other which is part of the network bridge together with the
wireless card
I am also using the ASUS software Access Point coming with the P5AD2-Premium
motherboard so all network cards and wireless card are motheboard integrated.

The issue here was that the internet was not coming through correctly to any
of the clients regardless wired or wireless. Sometimes it worked sometimes
it doesn't or it was extremly slow. It seemed to me that this is a DNS
problem as all the pings were going through correctly to any ip addresses on
the internet but once the DNS was involved it all got stuck

Because of the ICS the DNS server address sent down to the clients is
192.168.0.1 ... This caused the problem... Appareantly there is a problem on
my box using network bridge and resolving the correct addresses from the
ISP's DNS.

To bypass this I have hardwired the DNS addresses of my ISP on the clients'
network settings and it all started to work on lightspeed.

I suggest you try this solution unless you have way too many clients to
handle

Cheers
Zoltan