Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:26:08 +0000 From: Mark Dixon <mnd999@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Bridge wired / wireless without hosting the network - is this possible Message-ID: <5CF2D9AB-DCE6-484B-BAB1-06E7E540F807@gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hi all, Apologies if this has come up before but I can't see anything with a quick google. What I want to do is setup a bridge between my wireless network and a wired one. Hostap I hear everyone cry but I don't think that will work because I don't want to create a wireless network - I want to join an existing one because this box won't be turned on all the time. I also need the bridging desktop to have a DHCP acquired IP because it want to have internet access (I mainly use it for Scala dev). Essentially, the network looks like this: [Internet Router w/ DHCP] -----wired--[Switch] ---wired---[Airport Express]******wireless******[Desktop w/Freebsd9]-------wired-----[ReadyNAS] What I want to do is have the freebsd (dual boot wi/ Windows) desktop bridge to the readyNAS when it's turned on via the wireless LAN so that I can access files on it. Unfortunately I can't connect the readyNAS to the switch because the switch is in the living room and the readyNAS is too noisy. When the desktop is running Windows 7 this is dead easy, but I can't figure out how to do it under FreeBSD. Any ideas? Thanks, Mark [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAk8/wxcACgkQLqgJ90OcaiB+PwCgtCpQQiVM5lK7GTul9IpzNGg+ /b4An2rqpoODvPXYtptB7B2oqoiVktC7 =sRq0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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