Your latter idea should work. For a while, I used an old K6-2 box to bridge a couple of wired networks (I wanted to connect some newer computers to an old coax network and couldn't find any PCI cards with BNC connectors). I don't see any reason it wouldn't work just as well if one of the interfaces is wireless. At the time I had to patch the kernel, but it's included now, although I'm not sure if your average distro kernel includes it. A Google search for "linux ethernet bridge howto" should turn up information on what you're looking for. Xavier On Aug 31, 2005, at 5:26 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: > Hey tclugers, > I am wondering if someone can help me with what I assume is an > easy problem. I have a network inside, where I am typing right now, > and there are cat5 cables carefully hidden so that my parents house > doesn't look what my mother would consider "bad looking." Anyway, I > have a WRT54G for > wireless access, and it also provides DHCP serving for this > network. The > Cable modem is hooked to this network obviously. Anyway, here's the > deal: > > I want to connect the network I have in my garage (where I can have > things look however I like, we don't park cars in the Garage we use > it for storage, and also it's my test lab. Basically a whole hell > of a lot of 486s, p90s, p100s, p200s, etc. Anyway, I want to > connect the networks wirelessly so that the machines in the garage > can get an address via DHCP and so that I can be inside in my nice > comfy computer spot inside the house and ssh to the test machines > without having to go to the garage. > > I have heard of possibly getting another WRT54G and turning off the > dhcp server on that one and doing some sort of bridging mode thing. > Any ideas there? > > I also have been thinking I would just get a pci 802.11g card, > stick it and a pci nic into a p100 or so, and then have the g card > grab an address and then... plug the cable from the pci nic into my > hub in the garage and somehow run traffic that way. Anyway, I > apologize if this is > a stupid question, I am just really, really ready to connect the > networks. Distcc could be a lot more fun if I add all those > machines in the garage. :) > > Anyway, any thoughts out there? I'd really, really appreciate it. > > Thanks, > > nick > > ------------------------------ > nick thompson > > all unix all the time. > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > >