Re: [SLUG] Laptop Bridge

From: Ian C. Blenke (icblenke@nks.net)
Date: Wed Sep 06 2006 - 22:50:35 EDT

Sick Twist wrote:
> Thanks for the heads up, Ian. Would it make more sense to set the
> laptop up as a router instead of a bridge to avoid the problems that
> some wireless chipsets have in this situation? There will be no
> services running. We only need access to websites for all the PCs
> without wireless adapters.

Sure, routing/NATting has _always_ worked for me.

Do your laptops with wireless need to access your PCs with a physical
connection? If so, you can still NAT internally, but you'll lose any
network broadcasts for things like network browsing (without a helper).

- Ian


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