[Gllug] wicd manager

[Chris Bell]

On Sun 01 Nov, Chris Bell wrote:
> 
> Hello,
>    Are you trying to use the same allocated IP address for two pieces of
> equipment? You may be able to do that, but not at the same time, and the
> other end of the link may need a connection break for a relatively long time
> to forget the previous MAC address.
>    You may be able to put a cable modem into bridge mode, when it would use
> a link local address on each side of the modem, but it could only pass the
> allocated IP address on to a single device, using just one local interface,
> regardless of the number of local connections to its output switch, even if
> it has wireless plus a four port switch.
> 
> 
> 
   For information, my HiPoint ADSL moden has four output ethernet ports
plus a wireless interface, and they are interconnected by a programmable
multiport bridge, almost certainly running on an embedded Linux. I may even
be able to put the modem into bridge mode, linked to a single output port,
connect that to an external device, (perhaps an IPCop firewall), then
connect the other side of that device to another port of the bridge, linked
to the two remaining ports plus the wireless.


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