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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Can I make two wireless routers communicate using the wireless?
I want to make a setup like this:
cable modem <-cable-> wireless router 1 <-wireless-> wireless router 2 in another room <-cables-> PCs in another room
Basically, I want to extend my ...
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How to Bridge Two Ethernet Ports on Mac OS X
How can I bridge two wired ethernet interfaces on Mac OS X (e.g. the current MacPro comes with two ethernet ports)?
Googling turned up (e.g. this Apple forum post and this openvpn post) that this is ...
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Wired to wireless bridge in Linux
I am attempting to set up my Raspberry Pi as a bridge, using Debian wheezy. I have a hostapd.conf: (some details changed for security, and yes, I know WEP is no good)...
interface=wlan0
bridge=br0
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Connecting to VirtualBox guest (ubuntu) from host (osx) via NAT?
I have a VirtualBox guest (running Ubuntu) configured with NAT through my host laptop (running OSX). It was my understanding that with NAT configured, I could access the guest from the host (w/o any ...
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Ubuntu Laptop as a wireless hotspot on bridge mode
I have a wired router to which my ubuntu laptop connects via ethernet. The wierless NIC of the laptop acts as a wireless hotspot on master mode. I use hostapd fo this. I have bridged eth0 and wlan0, ...
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second router: access point vs. bridge mode
I have my main router running Tomato. My second router is configured as an access point using a different channel as the main router, but the same SSID/WPA2 info. All the firewall stuff, plus DHCP is ...
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How to share Internet connection on Mac OS X to Virtualbox vm's using Host-only
In one line: is the following possible: AirPort <- Mac OS X bridge -> vbox-Host-only -> VM's
On a Mac OS X, I have VirtualBox with a virtual machine. For now I have configured 2 interfaces for my ...
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Can't bridge WIFI and ethernet, because wireless disconnects when I connect ethernet cable
I want to Bridge my Windows 7 laptop's wireless and wired adapters. I just select my ethernet and WIFI adapter, and choose create bridge.
However when plugging in ethernet cable, instantly my WIFI ...
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Using secondary router to create another network
To put things quickly into context, I've just moved into a shared house. The internet here is provided through a wireless router.
I have some devices in my room that I would like to be networked, but ...
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Using AirPort Extreme base station as a wireless G to wireless N bridge
Due to an unfortunate placement of various wall outlets in my new apartment, my ADSL 2 modem + router is not able to be placed next to my AirPort Extreme base station (AEBS). I'd prefer not to run Cat ...
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How to get access to the web interface of an ADSL modem running in bridge mode?
I have a D-Link DSL-2500U ADSL modem.
Its default IP is 192.168.1.1 and default login/password for the web interface is admin/admin. If I plug in the Ethernet cable to the NIC of a computer (that runs ...
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Bridging two sockets
I wondered if it is possible to bridge two incoming tcp sockets.
For example:
Client A -----> Server <----- Client B
The the server sends it's magic to both clients and then they connect ...
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VirtualBox network configuration
I have a CentOS 6.1 virtual machine, virtualized with VirtualBox on Windows XP. This machine hosts my local development MySQL server.
I'd like to find the correct network configuration, so that:
my ...
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Using a Wi-Fi router as bridge to increase the signal?
A friend of mine lives in an appartment building whose structure is such that the Wi-Fi signal is very weak. Even a USB key won't work.
I was thinking of buying an entry-level Wi-Fi router and ...
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How is the communication between northbridge and southbridge like?
How is the connection/communication between northbridge and southbridge like?
It seems that data must pass from the CPU to the northbridge, and
then again over a PCI bus to the southbridge, based on ...
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Bridging a wireless network to a wired and a second wireless network
I have a rather unique situation. I just bought a boat and am now living aboard full time. Back in my apartment, I had a WRT54G wireless router that I plugged into my cable modem, such that it ...
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Motorola NVG510 bridge mode
I have a Motorola NVG510 modem from AT&T, and I would like to disable all routing functions and use it as just a modem. I have a Time Capsule that's already connected and broadcasting its own ...
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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 ...
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Can I use an Apple AirPort Express as a wireless-to-wired bridge?
I have a wireless network using an Apple AirPort Extreme. That device is set up in my office and hooked up to the cable modem. I have a TV in another room which can accept a wired internet ...
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Sharing internet connection from Windows XP using wi-fi router
I have an network configuration like:
Ethernet cable from ISP connected to Windows XP machine, configured with static IP 192.168.0.3
Another ethernet connection from 2nd Windows XP machine's network ...
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IP forwarding on the same network
I have a raspberry pi that I have put wifi on. I am also using its ethernet connection to bring internet to my XBox 360. I want to bridge these connections AND keep them both on the same network.
For ...
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Using Virtualbox Bridge Networking fails connection from Guest OS to Oracle XE running on Host
I am trying to make a JDBC connection from a VirtualBox Ubuntu Guest OS to an Oracle XE database running o Host. However, the connection is refused. Here are the details of my environment:
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Bridged DSL connection works for a bit, then fails bizarrely
I've got a BellSouth FastAccess DSL subscription that has run on an ISP-provided 2wire HomePortal 1700HW combination modem/router for a few years now with no significant issues. I recently acquired a ...
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How to create a network bridge using command line in Windows?
I want create a network bridge using command line, I have tried "netsh bridge install" but the output says unsupported. After a google, I found this post at here, and also here. They all mentioned the ...
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How do I use a Mac as switch (or bridge two interfaces)
I need to put a wired device (Blue-ray player), on my home wireless network's subnet, via the mac's wifi connection, as there is no wired connections upstairs.
To be more clear, what I'd like is:
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Can a Netgear Wireless Cable Modem Gateway (CG814GCMR) be used as a wireless bridge?
Can a Netgear Wireless Cable Modem Gateway (CG814GCMR) be used as a wireless bridge?
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Configure linux machine as bridge/switch and end device
At my home, I have two desktop PCs in two rooms. The router / DSL modem is in one of these rooms. Now I want to configure a home server (having 2 LAN ports, running 24/7) in the corridor between the ...
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Bridging my laptop's wireless and wired adaptors
I would like to be able to connect a desktop computer that does not have a wireless adapter to my wireless network.
I could just run a network cable from my ADSL/wireless router to the desktop ...
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Wireless network relay?
Is there hardware (links would be great) that can connect to the wireless internet already in my house and provide hard links to other hardware?
Basically the problem is that my basement is not wired ...
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How to make network bridge start on boot
Whenever I start my computer I need to restart my network service (using service network restart) to enable my bridge (br0). How do I get Linux to do this when I start up my computer so I don't have ...
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Unable to access the internet from my VirtualBox CentOS VM via wireless connection
I have a VirtualBox CentOS VM setup on my Windows 7 machine. I can ping my router, however I am unable to access the outside world.
In Windows I have three network connections setup:
Wireless ...
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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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Network with bridge and port forwarding?
Below is my current (and planned) home network configuration. I would like to connect my non-wifi-capable desktop to my home network. The question is: HOW?
What device do I need?
The primary ...
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Is there a way to connect a USB portable media storage device to a SCSI host?
I have a Roland XV5080 sampler, which has SCSI interface, so I can attach HDD and CD drive to it. But I really don't need SCSI performance, the sampler loads all stuff into memory (it has 64 Mbyte).
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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 ->
LINKSYS ...
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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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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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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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Bridging multiple routers
I am currently living through router config hell. My main internet connection is in living room A. It is an PPPoE ethernet cable which goes into main WiFi router WR1 (IP 192.168.1.1). This device ...
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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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Use ZyXEL WAP 3205 as LAN to WLAN bridge
I've got the following devices:
ZyXEL WAP3205 WLAN Access Point [WAP]
Comcast / Ubee device with 1 LAN port [COM]
Laptop with LAN and WLAN [CLIENT]
I want to connect WAP to COM via the LAN port ...
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Hostapd strangeness
A while back I asked a question about setting my Raspberry Pi up with a bridged network connection - Wired to wireless bridge in Linux - and the answer I got worked well.
Now, I had to start all over ...
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Virtual Box Bridged network w/ Static IP Win7 host Ubuntu Guest
Last year, I had no trouble with doing the following:
Create virtual machine
Set network adapter to bridged adapter
Set static IP
Guest connects to Internet, host connects to guest @ 192.168.1.xxx
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DD-WRT router causing IP address conflicts across network
My DD-WRT router has lost its mind!
(Caveat: technically neither of these devices are "routing". I'm going to call them routers anyway.)
I just set up two DD-WRT routers, one as a WAP (working fine) ...
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DD-WRT: Repeater bridge with VPN?
Setup:
Router1 and Router2 run DD-WRT
Cable modem is connected to WLAN port of Router1
Router2 runs in Repeater Bridge mode (there is also a separate SSID with virtual interface)
This setup works ...
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XEN dom0 network Bridge has no connection to domU's
I am using Debian wheezy with XEN 4.1. I have two network bridges xenbr0 and xenbr1.
xenbr0 is linked to the real-eth0-nic so the domU's can talk to the outside world, which worked fine.
xenbr1 was ...
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No connection via Airport Express in bridge mode
I have trouble connecting to my wired network via an Airport Express. I would like to have the Airport Express just operate as a bridge -- i.e. as an access point. I have set up the Airport Express to ...
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How to turn my laptop into a hotspot?
I have a laptop which is connected to the internet with ADSL modem, and I would like to share the internet for any laptop connecting to wireless router from my laptop using hotspot .
This is what I ...
