Questions tagged [bridge]
Bridge is the term used in computing to describe a device that connects two or more networks that use different protocols or equal to two segments of the same network using the same protocol, for example, ethernet or token ring.
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Connecting an OpenWrt router to a “dumb” modem provided to me by my ISP
My ISP game me a device that offers hardly any configuration possibilities.
The Wi-Fi is also bad. So I decided to buy another router and flashed it with OpenWrt.
Unfortunately, I cannot replace my ...
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What is the difference between bridge connection and internet connection sharing?
I have an external WiFi card, and I want to use it to share internet with my PS4, since I get bad signal in my room. But in the Network settings there is the option to bridge the connection between ...
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My Own WiFi Router + DHCP Server on a Public Wifi
I live in the dorms of my University, that has a public WiFi for each building.
I have several computers in my apt (+ a RPI, a Chromecast Audio, and a WiFi printer) which I want to connect to my own ...
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Using a DD-WRT router as a wireless ethernet hub
As the title says, I have a DD-WRT router that I would like to use as a wireless ethernet hub. I have a machine in an RV park that is ethernet only, and I need to connect it to the internet. The park ...
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Creating bridge in Linux, share network like VirtualBox
I have a local are network 192.168.1.1/24. I use libvirt and I want my virtual machines to use this network also, at least a sub-network of it, such as 192.168.1.128/25. However, all the libvirt ...
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VirtualBox bridged adapter not working under certain circumstances
I have VirtualBox 3.2.12 running on an Ubuntu 10.04 host. Usually, at work, I have my eth0 connected to a LAN with a static IP. If I bring my laptop home, I connect to the Internet via WiFi, with my ...
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I want to use a secondary wireless router to connect to my primary, all wirelessly. Do I need a bridge, access point, or repeater?
I realize there is plenty of documentation on this subject throughout superuser and the internet overall. However, it's almost like there's too much information and I need help sorting through it.
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Issue with 802.1q VLAN on VMs in bridge mode with Wi-Fi interface
My environment is a router with OpenWRT, a laptop connected to the router via patch cable and an untagged VLAN with VID 5 configured on that port in the router, and a MacBook M1 Pro connected via Wi-...
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How do I make a stateful bridge filewall with nftables?
The nftables wiki has an example, but it doesn't seem to work for me.
The page says that it should work since kernel 5.3, but it says "protocol error" when I try the exact commands from the ...
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Which MAC address does my ISP need?
For my new network I want to use a Vigor 130 as modem in bridging mode and an OPNsense appliance behind that. The OPNsense will connect to the Internet.
My ISP uses IPoE/DHCP for Internet access and ...
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Jitter generation with netem is not working
I am trying to simulate jitter in my network using netem. I am using the following command:
sudo tc qdisc add dev eno3 root netem delay 200ms 100ms
And this command the output of the ping to the ...
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Wi-Fi Bridging with Separate Network
I am currently living in a shared house with shared wifi but want a private network for my devices and my new Google Home. I have a TP-Link Archer C50 router. This device currently provides me with a ...
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How to configure a network bridge without IP (Ubuntu 16.04)?
I am trying to set up an LXD hypervisor that is connected to two networks: interface eth0 connects to a private network (i.e. 192.168.192.0/24) and interface eth1 connects to a small network with 16 ...
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VirtualBox - VM with bridged adapter can't access internet while host can
Here is the guest VM network config:
And here is the host's network config:
The fact is that from the host, internet works perfectly. But from the guest I can't access Internet, nor ping the ...
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Can't connect to internet in Ubuntu using bridge adapter
My host OS is windows XP(SP3), guest OS is Ubuntu 14.04, and virtualBox is 4.3.
I want XP and Ubuntu to talk to each other, so I choose to use bridge adapter network.
XP:
Windows IP Configuration
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DD Wrt Wifi bridge connection breaking
I have a DD Wrt connected to a DD Wrt router as a Router - Client bridge setup. It works fine for sometime, but occasionally, it appears to stop communicating to the router, or internet.. not sure.
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Does a switch know the mac address of other port of a bridge?
Let's say we have switches A and B, they are connected by bridge C.
Does A knows about the mac of nics connected to B?
Is it true that every time when nic on A want to send a frame to nic on B, the ...
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Configuring bridging in Virtual Box to enable access from other computers in network
I have a Win XP installed on Virtual Box, and as suggested in different posts, i have chosen the bridged mode. When i look at the router logs, i can see that an ip address has been given to the VM and ...
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Bridged Tomato network - problems with some devices on bridged wired segment
This is my network:
Dotted lines indicate wireless connections, solid lines indicate Ethernet connections.
I used two ASUS routers and Tomato to bridge my network. So I have have two wired segments ...
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Setting up a bridged network with VMware Fusion
I'm currently playing with VMware Fusion on Mac OS X 10.6 with an Ubuntu Server 9.10 as guest OS. VMware is configured for bridged networking (automatic detection). But there is no internet access and ...
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Disaster After Removing Two HDD From LaCie RAID 0 Case
This is the second time this has happened. I own a LaCie IDE RAID 0 Enclosure and the RAID went bad. The system gave me a warning that the data could be read from the RAID but that nothing could be ...
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How to forward port when using 3 routers?
I've been struggling with my home network since I moved in but finally got to some results. Here's current set-up:
INTERNET ->
THOMSON 585V.7 (modem/Wi-Fi router) ->
wireless bridge ->
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How do I disable auto-negotiation on DD-WRT?
I have a WRT54GL router with DD-WRT firmware installed, and have the exact same situation as exposed in this thread. The problem is, I don't know how to disable the auto-negotiation on the router ...
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Multiple Interfaces on same subnet breaks PTP
I have a PC ("main PC") with two interfaces mgbe0 and mgbe1. Both of these interfaces connect to another PCs A and B (mgbe0->"A", mbge1->"B"). Both PCs A and B are ...
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VMware bridged mode is not working, but NAT mode works fine
I recently updated my PC and found out that the bridged mode of VMware Workstation Player 17 stopped working, however NAT mode works fine.
Host OS is Windows 11 and guest OS is Ubuntu 18.04.
I've ...
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KVM / QEMU - Confused by bridge ip address (on Debian host)
I have followed a few guides to getting a bridge setup on my Debian VM host
The most useful I found to be this:
https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-use-bridged-networking-with-libvirt-and-kvm
I have read a ...
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How to automatically enable wifi 4addr (WDS) mode before connecting to specific SSID or network?
I have a laptop on which I have setup a bridge interface between the Ethernet and WiFi devices in order to connect non-WiFi devices to the network before they go into their final, wired, position. I ...
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Bridge cameras and connect to LAN
I'm hoping to connect two H.264 cameras (with ethernet ports) to the main LAN wirelessly. Can a cheap switch be used and somehow have it connected to the LAN via WiFi? Perhaps a wireless bridge? But I ...
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Connect a Hot Spot to a Router via USB-C to Ethernet Adapter?
I've experience in using LTE modems connected to various antennas, routers, and mesh networks; however, I've never done so with a hotspot that has only a USB connection.
Is it reasonable to assume to ...
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Creating Network Bridge in ArchLinux stops internet connectivity
I tried to add a new bridge interface in ArchLinux. I followed the instructions from the wiki but after assigning the bridge to the real interface I cannot connect anymore to other IPs from outside (...
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How to disable AP isolation in Linux bridge?
Context: I am trying to set up a WiFi hotspot on a Raspberry Pi by bridging my ethernet connection.
Question: How do I disable AP isolation or client isolation?
Pre-work: Here is what I have done ...
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VirtualBox bridged interfaces do not work with bridged networking
I'm trying to use a virtual machine to bridge connections between the VirtualBox internal network and my host's network.
The purpose of this is to be able to firewall connections without having to ...
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Why am I seeing retransmissions across the network using iperf3?
I'm seeing retransmissions between two pods in a kubernetes cluster I'm setting up. I'm using kube-router https://github.com/cloudnativelabs/kube-router for the networking between the hosts. Here's ...
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Correct way to configure Bridge network in centos
I am trying to configure bridge network in the HP server. I dont have console access. I am connected using ssh to the server remotely.
The configuration files have been placed in the proper location /...
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Virtual Box bridged network and port forwarding
I have a problem.
Here is diagram of my network.
I have WIFI Router connected to the internet, I have order static IP from my ISP so I can access my local PC via the internet.
My router creates ...
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Sharing guest VPN connection with host computer using Hyper-V
My company's VPN client doesn't work with Windows 10 latest Insider Builds (HOST), so I thought of using a virtual machine (Windows 10 RTM GUEST) with the VPN client installed.
Is it possible to make ...
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pfsense with 4 WAN IP and outgoing NAT
I have a pfsense with a single wan ip, i want to assign multiple wan ip's. The pfsense machine is located on a vm machine with the other servers i wish to NAT forward. I want to give each server a wan ...
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How to use 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz at the same time
I have the following setup:
1x TP-Link Archer C7 (with to Accesspoints "AC24" on 2.4 GHz and "AC5" on 5 GHz)
1x Notebook with 2 Wifi-Adapters (TP-Link Stick connected to "AC5" and Intel N 7260 ...
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I bridged my wireless and LAN connections on my laptop and connected it with my desktop. Why is my desktop not recieving an internet connection?
I am trying to connect my desktop to my laptop with an Ethernet cable to use the laptop's internet connection. I have followed the instructions of one article to bridge the LAN connection and wireless ...
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Can't ping computers via a bridged connection
I've got the following setup:
PC running Windows 8.1 with a Wifi card connected to the local network and an ethernet cable running to a laptop. Wifi and Ethernet connections are bridged.
Laptop ...
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How to set up a netbook to act as a bridge
I have a netbook that I want to set up as a bridge (that's the only thing I want it to do, I don't use it for anything else anymore). I want to bridge wlan0 to eth0 (see picture below)
Ethernet ...
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Linux Bridge Won't Forward Packets?
I am trying to share my Wifi internet connection on my laptop with a desktop computer temporarily. I have set up a bridge between wlan0 and eth0 (called br0), got an address on br0 from dhcp, and even ...
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Recommend Ethernet switch/bridge/router (VPN client, server is linux)
Can anyone recommend a small, highly reliable VPN-client-capable router/switch?
Should have 4-8 Ethernet LAN ports, although could be combined with a small switch to reach this.
The WAN port will be ...
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cannot ssh to computer behind a dd-wrt bridge
In my home network , i have dd-wrt router in another room , which bridges wifi from main home router (linksys) to the computers wired behind dd-wrt router.
Now I cannot ssh from my laptop ( ...
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How can I set up an access point on Linux and still be connected to the internet?
I need to use a laptop with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS as an access point, to connect an Ethernet-only device to the Internet, and to be able to ssh into it from the network.
The laptop does not have WiFi ...
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Bridging VLAN sub-interfaces
How could I bridge together VLAN sub-interfaces?
On my host, I can successfully enslave my eth0 interface into a bridge.
I can also successully create and use VLAN sub-interfaces.
However, I have ...
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Connecting VM to outside world through a bridge
Currently setting up a VM (through AWS Firecracker, that shouldn't matter though, it just takes tap0 and uses that for eth0 in the guest) which should connect to the outside world. I've got the host ...
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Why does my USB to IDE / SATA bridge only work on old PCs?
I have an old USB2.0 to IDE / SATA bridge that I like to use for my loose HDDs, but on my newer PCs they always make problems.
The access to the HDD is slow or fails completely with an USB error.
The ...
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Linux bridge with SSH tap interfaces (cloud -> LAN)
I read quite some information about the subject lately - because I'm really not used to work at such "low layers" - but I can't point the finger on what I'm doing wrong. Believe me, I tried ;)
I ...
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Automatically Add Network Adapters to Bridge
I've been using WSL 2 with a Windows Insider build. I've managed to get around some networking and systemd issues by creating a network bridge with my Wi-Fi adapter and the WSL network adapter and ...
