[Sussex] Holbrook - Moot: Wired Networking

[Richie Jarvis]

Jon Fautley wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:38:28 +0100
> Kenny Millington <kenny at 3ait.co.uk> wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>>     
>>> We will NOT be running packet capturing software on the Holbrook 
>>> network.  For the purposes of the talk, we are going to be running
>>> our own LAN built on the night with a test server, and users
>>> laptops.  Any packet capturing will only be performed on the test
>>> LAN itself.
>>>       
>> That is indeed good to hear and thank you for your speedy reply. It is
>> much appreciated.
>>
>> Personally, I am curious about how you plan on keeping the two
>> networks separate once you setup a bridge between the two since (as
>> best as I understand it - and this may not say much) once you bridge
>> two networks they effectively become one network and as such all
>> wireless traffic would pass over the bridge and indeed vice-versa?
>>     
>
> Terminology clash.
>
> I'm fairly sure that Richie means he'll setup a multi-homed NAT gateway.
>
> /j
>   
Yup - that is exactly right Jon - the unit with a wireless connection 
will bridge between the wireless and the test network.  However, the 
other machines on the test network will have to be NAT'd by the bridged 
PC, otherwise the AP would get very confused, and it wouldn't work.

Cheers,

Richie