On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 07:34 +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My wife and I live in a two-storey flat, and we have a small home LAN
> (100% CentOS 5) with a "classical" configuration:
>
> On the ground floor, there is the telephone jack with the DSL modem
> router (192.168.1.254). This modem has a mini-switch with two Ethernet
> jacks to it, and the two are used by:
>
> - the server (192.168.1.1), a "black box" running in a cupboard 24/7
> - the wireless AP (192.168.1.253)
>
> Then, on the first floor, everything is connected by wireless, and for
> the moment, configured statically:
>
> - my desktop PC (192.168.1.2)
> - my laptop (192.168.1.3)
> - my wife's laptop (192.168.1.4)
>
> I have an older laptop here, a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo D, that I'd like to
> use as a simple build box. It's physically installed next to my desktop
> PC. It doesn't have a wireless card, so I vaguely thought: is it somehow
> possible to connect this laptop with an Ethernet cable to my desktop
> PC's unused Ethernet card, and then connect it to the internet? In that
> case, I wonder if I have to bridge the desktop PC's network interfaces
> (wlan0 and eth0). That said, I don't even know if the driver for wlan0
> (rt61) allows any bridging. Or maybe simply configure a different
> subnet, but then, what would the network configuration look like on the
> laptop and on the desktop PC?
>
> Any suggestions for that?
>
Unless you really want to spend the time learning the networking configs
on CentOS, I'd suggest getting a simple Ethernet to 802.11 bridge.
These are commonly called "game adaptors" here in the US.
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