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Wireless Bridge Appliance posted: Jun 5, 2006 12:31 AM

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Appliance to bridge wireless network to wired network

Re: Wireless Bridge Appliance

1. Jun 5, 2006 2:04 PM in response to: VMTN Admin
Click to view emockler's profile Novice 26 posts since
Jan 7, 2004
I tried to download my appliance to see if it works and got some other guys appliance. So please wait until they fix it. Both files are named bridge.zip.
Reminds me of a similar experience getting a fridge from sears........

I know your'e all itching to try it, I could pare it down to 24MB and email it.

Re: Wireless Bridge Appliance

2. Jun 6, 2006 2:42 PM in response to: VMTN Admin
Click to view emockler's profile Novice 26 posts since
Jan 7, 2004
The download is working now!
extract it to c:\ and it will create c:\bridge\*.*
just click on the vmx to run
the default ISO is for STP, if this is not appropriate for your network then change the LiveCD to bridge.iso in the config.

Re: Wireless Bridge Appliance

3. Jun 7, 2006 9:36 PM in response to: emockler
Click to view ccostan's profile Novice 35 posts since
Nov 3, 2004
Could this appliance be used in situations where you wanted to share 1 wired connection and have other laptops connect to your laptop's WIFI card and surf the web through the wired connection or is it more for a wired device to Bridge onto a wireless network?

Carlo.

Re: Wireless Bridge Appliance

4. Jun 8, 2006 12:23 PM in response to: VMTN Admin
Click to view emockler's profile Novice 26 posts since
Jan 7, 2004
Yes, absolutely

I just tested this to verify.
I have 1 box connected to the network with ethernet, and it has some linksys PCI card. I had used this b4 to test the bridge, but against an access point.

It's now connected to the general network, which has two sets of valid ip's, public and private. Machines with private ip's access the outside via an ISA server. I setup an adhoc network with my laptop, and another one. I set my laptop with the public ip, and the other with the private ip. The box running the bridge does not have the private ip on any interface. It actually has some 192. address on the wired interface, which is not on either of the laptops. You will have to set the upstream GW on the wireless cards.
ICS is not enabled anywhere.

Both laptops access the internet or the private network as if they were connected directly. I am not sure of any limit on the number of adhoc connections, but at least two are connected now.

In addition, a box with 2 wireless cards could run the bridge appliance, creating a range extender.

Re: Wireless Bridge Appliance

5. Jun 9, 2006 4:48 PM in response to: emockler
Click to view ccostan's profile Novice 35 posts since
Nov 3, 2004
Yes, absolutely

Worked GREAT! I fired up your bridge appliance on my laptop with the WIRED connection, Created an ADHOC wireless network with the WiFI card and then fired up the SQUID appliance. Everything got IPs through the one wired connection. Laptops had to set the proxy server to surf for some reason but after that ...

I became the most popular guy in the conference room! :)

Good Luck in the contest!
CARLO.

Re: Wireless Bridge Appliance

6. Dec 17, 2008 5:13 PM in response to: emockler
Click to view wtmoran's profile Novice 4 posts since
Dec 17, 2008
Is this appliance currently available for download anywhere?

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