Sharing wireless connection to wired computers [farm 6] [wire connections]
Q: I have a situation that many of you probably encoutered at some point. I have bunch of wired PCs running in a folding farm six to be exact. I recently moved into a townhome and my router is on the ground floor serve wireless connection. For aesthetic reasons, will my pc be up and at this moment I can not share connection wires for wired connections.
What I want to do is setup a wireless receiver on the second floor and share that connection via a wired connection to a switch and then my folding machines can easily connect to the wired network upstairs.
I have a wireless PCI card and put it on a PC. This PC has a built-in Ethernet. Once the wireless card started working, I downloaded and sohoconnection created to work as a router. Then I bridged the wireless connection and set it up so that my switch is connected to the Ethernet port and the rest of the PCs are able to access the Web. SOHOconnection not have the possibility of a specific compound to be used to connect the parts. I am wondering at this point what should I do.
Is a hardware solution to this problem? If so, post some links .
Thanks in advance.
Best Answer: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/docum…
possibly by bridging the connections, but note the potential security issues associated with this.
Re:Go to the source. The DD-WRT how-to's are simpler to read. The biggest difficulty with DD-WRT is getting it flashed correctly — you should read and follow the notes for that.
I think that worrying about "transparent bridging" for most of us is not useful. Folding works fine through the bridge. Basic Windows networking works fine. Web browsing works fine. What more do you want?
Specific on-line gaming, P2P? Perhaps you'd be better off asking about such needs specifically instead of trying to digest theoretical details.
Here's the source:
http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=68&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
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Madwand, just like you said, found a howto forum. Thanks a lot. Appreciate your input.
Also your comment:
Originally posted by: guy
Here's a quote from the DD-WRT forums (Broadcom based hardware / HOWTO: Client Bridged Mode):
DD-WRT's "client bridge" mode" is not a transparent bridge.
Only one single ethernet device is properly supported behind the
router running in "client bridge" mode. (It should have been baptized
"client adapter mode" instead!) In the old forum we already had
endless discussions about this subject. Note that this is a technical
limitation of the 802.11 standard, rather than a deficiency of DD-WRT.
To create a true transparent bridge, with multiple ethernet devices
at both sides, use WDS.
The WAG54G apparently supports WDS; you might try that if you haven't already.
FWIW, I haven't had any problems with simple Windows networking using DD-WRT "Client Bridged Mode", but I can see that it isn't transparent — all devices behind the bridge show the bridge's MAC address.
Will someone be able to explain what are the implications of not using transparent connections?
Thanks in advance.
Re:Originally posted by: guy
If I have another wireless router, can I just set that to run in client more and get wired connection out of its 4 wired ports?
You'd need a wireless router that supports client bridge mode — many routers don't; some do with 3rd-party firmware such as DD-WRT.
Re:I read that I cannot run ICS if another DHCP server is running? I have a wireless router running as a DHCP server should that be a problem? I was running my router on the same 192.168.x.x ip so I will change that to run on 10.0.x.x and try to setup ics. Right now if I try to setup ICS, it complains that there is another network with the same ip range
Thanks for your reply, I will give ICS one more try. If I have another wireless router, can I just set that to run in client more and get wired connection out of its 4 wired ports? That would solve my problem as well, I guess, if I understood you correctly.
Re:I guess you had some problem with SOHOConnection that you can't resolve?
Did you check the relevant SC docs? Follow their instructions? Look for contacts?
http://www.servlet.com/soho2/SOHOC-README.html#Overview
Couldn't you use Window's Internet Connection Sharing instead?
If you're ready to give up on ICS and SC, then a "hardware solution" to you problem can be found in many wireless devices that have "client bridge mode" support. They'll do what you're trying to do — connect to a wireless AP / router, and share that connection to wired clients.
Linksys WRT54GL and siblings with 3rd-party firmware such as DD-WRT can do this (check supported hardware devices notes; read firmware installation notes carefully).
Some wireless access points have this functionality built-in.
Some devices labeled "Wireless Ethernet Converter", "Wireless Print Server", "Wireless Gaming Adapter" do the same thing.
I've used a Netgear WGPS606 and Linksys WRT54G v1 with DD-WRT each at different times to bridge computers that were folding in a back room.
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