- Network Bridge
- Posted by Geoff Lane on July 8th, 2004
I've got a small home network consisting of an ADSL router and WiFi Access
Point.
My Laptop runs XP Home and has a WiFi PC card, it also has a USB BlueTooth
adapter to connect to a mobile phone.
I am trying to do something with my bluetooth phone to connect it to my home
network (I appreciate it may not be possible) and assume I would have to
'bridge' my Bluetooth and WiFi connection.
As soon as I do this my laptop is unable to access the network saying that
the address cannot be found; if I disconnect the bridge the network works
again.
Am I doing something obviously wrong?
Geoff Lane
- Posted by sean on July 8th, 2004
Geoff Lane wrote:
I have managed to network 3 PC’s with a ‘bridge connection’ on one of them.
- Posted by Black Shuck on July 8th, 2004
Geoff Lane wrote:
I had a problem with Network bridges and my WiFi card, and spent hours
messing around, XP claimed to have bridged the connection, but no data
was being transferred, I eventually found this nugget of info that
sorted my problems. You might want to try it...
Bridge May Not Work With a Non-Promiscuous Mode Network Adapter
http://support.microsoft.com/default...348&#appliesto
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"This dog don't give a feck..."
- Posted by Geoff Lane on July 9th, 2004
"sean" <s-e-a-n-h-a-r-d-y-8-8-@-y-a-h-o-o.c-o.u-k> wrote in message
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I didn't think of that - I'll give it a try, thanks.
Meant to post this to uk.comp.home-networking :-))))
Geoff Lane
- Posted by Geoff Lane on July 9th, 2004
"Black Shuck" <mgbackup2003@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Ah, that is interesting - I'll give that a run.
Geoff Lane
- Posted by Geoff Lane on July 9th, 2004
"Black Shuck" <mgbackup2003@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Meant to ask - what happens with the IP addresses, does the 'bridge' get one
or do the bridged network devices keep their own?
Geoff Lane
- Posted by Geoff Lane on July 14th, 2004
"Black Shuck" <mgbackup2003@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Tried it and still no luck but this may be underlying problems with my set
up as DUN is not working; my ICS and local network is but not DUN.
Geoff Lane
