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In order to make a bridge, you must have two connections to combine. Two
side of a bridge, get it????? What two connections are you trying to
bridge?????? your wireless connection and wired connection? I dont think
that will work.... you know, forget about that.
Reading your post why not use the router for your network completly. connect
machine D into an ethernet port on your wireless router and let all
computers recieve IPs via DHCP.
Then you will have complete network access. If you dont want machines A and
C to beable to log into machine D, thats simple enough to use a firewall to
block the IPs on those machines.
Robert....
"Dennis Jelavic" <djelavic@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the suggestions. I allocated static addresses 172.16.0.51 and
> 172.16.0.52 to the two ethernet cards and that problem was resolved.
> However Svyatoslav, I didn't understand your comment to ensure "wireless
> NIC starts _after_ wired one". The wireless addresses are allocated
> automatically and I have no control over them!
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> However I have now encountered a new problem. In trying to define a bridge
> across the wired and wireless networks I encounter an error telling me
> that I "must select at least two LAN or High Speed Internet connections
> that are not being used by Internet Connection Sharing". In fact I had
> selected the two icons on the Network Connections panel for the Wireless
> Network Connection and the local Area Connection and I had ensured that
> Internet Connection Sharing and Firewall were turned off for both
> connections. Any ideas on what is preventing bridging of the two networks.
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> Thanks to all the respondents to my initial posting.
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> By the way, the wireless network was in fact operating in "Infrastructure"
> mode not "Ad Hoc" mode as I originally stated.
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> Dennis Jelavic
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> "S. Pidgorny <MVP>" <slavickp@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>> Easy:
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>> * Use separate Ip ranges for your wireless and wired networks
>> * Make sure (this one is easy to test)
>> * Do not use default gateway setting on the wired Ethernet connection
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>> --
>> Svyatoslav Pidgorny, MVP, MCSE
>> -= F1 is the key =-
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>> "Dennis Jelavic" <djelavic@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
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>>> I have three computers, A (XP), B (XP) and C (Win2K) connected via an ad
>> hoc
>>> wireless network. Each is configured to dynamically obtain IP addresses
>> from
>>> a wireless router. Machine B has in addition to its wireless network
>> adapter
>>> a NIC through which it is connected to a fourth machine D (NT 4 Server)
>> via
>>> a cross over cable. The NIC on B has a static IP address of 192.168.0.51
>> and
>>> the NIC on D has a static IP address of 192.168.0.52
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>>> When the cable is connecting B with D, machine B can see D but can't see
>> any
>>> of the machines on the wireless network. When the cable between B and D
>>> is
>>> disconnected, B can see the wireless network, but of course can't see D.
>>>
>>> How do I get machine B to see the wireless network and the wired network
>>> simultaneously?
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