Adding wireless connection to bridge causes it to disconnect from

6 Sep 2006 12:46 PM

Ethan

Hi,

I have a wireless router (WPA enabled) connected to my dsl line, four
computers (A B C D) connected to a wired switch, and a wireless card in A
(windows xp pro).

I want to allow B C and D to access the internet through the wireless card
in A, so I added the LAN connection and the wireless connection to a bridge.
Everything worked fine, but the wireless connection disconnected.

Any suggestions?

6 Sep 2006 12:51 PM

Diamontina Cocktail

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"Ethan" <Et***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I have a wireless router (WPA enabled) connected to my dsl line, four
> computers (A B C D) connected to a wired switch, and a wireless card in A
> (windows xp pro).
>
> I want to allow B C and D to access the internet through the wireless card
> in A, so I added the LAN connection and the wireless connection to a
> bridge.
> Everything worked fine, but the wireless connection disconnected.
>
> Any suggestions?

Use ICS, remove the bridge and don't put the gateway in on the computer
doing ICS but do put the gateway (wired connection IP number) in on the
other computers.

6 Sep 2006 1:01 PM

Ethan

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"Diamontina Cocktail" wrote:

>
> "Ethan" <Et***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:44291023-B94F-43FB-A460-2307B81B7D73@microsoft.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a wireless router (WPA enabled) connected to my dsl line, four
> > computers (A B C D) connected to a wired switch, and a wireless card in A
> > (windows xp pro).
> >
> > I want to allow B C and D to access the internet through the wireless card
> > in A, so I added the LAN connection and the wireless connection to a
> > bridge.
> > Everything worked fine, but the wireless connection disconnected.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> Use ICS, remove the bridge and don't put the gateway in on the computer
> doing ICS but do put the gateway (wired connection IP number) in on the
> other computers.
>
>
>

is there no way of bridging it? i don't want to have to manage two subnets
and have A use extra resources to route between them.

6 Sep 2006 9:47 PM

Diamontina Cocktail

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"Ethan" <Et***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
>
> "Diamontina Cocktail" wrote:
>
>>
>> "Ethan" <Et***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:44291023-B94F-43FB-A460-2307B81B7D73@microsoft.com...
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I have a wireless router (WPA enabled) connected to my dsl line, four
>> > computers (A B C D) connected to a wired switch, and a wireless card in
>> > A
>> > (windows xp pro).
>> >
>> > I want to allow B C and D to access the internet through the wireless
>> > card
>> > in A, so I added the LAN connection and the wireless connection to a
>> > bridge.
>> > Everything worked fine, but the wireless connection disconnected.
>> >
>> > Any suggestions?
>>
>> Use ICS, remove the bridge and don't put the gateway in on the computer
>> doing ICS but do put the gateway (wired connection IP number) in on the
>> other computers.
>>
>>
>>
>
> is there no way of bridging it? i don't want to have to manage two subnets
> and have A use extra resources to route between them.

Yes you can bridge as you already have but if, for whatever reason, it isn't
working for you, this is the alternative. You don't have to, after setting
it up and if all runs normally into the future, have to "manage two
subnets". Once set up, it just runs like you would expect it to do. As for
the extra resources, I used to do the same as I have suggested to you with a
P3 600Mhz and it never seemed to make any difference to it at all. Using
XPSP2 of course.

6 Sep 2006 9:19 PM

Jack (MVP-Networking).

Hi

I do not fully understand the concoction but I will try.

Computer A is connected wirelessly to the Router.

Computer A needs a Wired Card in addition to the Wireless Card.

A regular switch has to be plugged to the A's Wired card.

The other computers have to be plugged via wires to the switch.

Computer A need to run Windows XP Pro.

The wired card in A, and the three other computers have to be configured
with a static IP that is on the same subnet, but the subnet has to be
different from the one of the Wireless connection.

Example: Wireless connection 192.168.1.2, the wired NIC. and the others
192.168.100.xxx

Once it is done, you Bridge the two Cards in computer A.

Once the Bridge is working correctly, all the computers would be on the same
Network, Routed by the Wireless Router.

Jack (MVP-Networking).

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"Ethan" <Et***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:44291023-B94F-43FB-A460-2307B81B7D73@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> I have a wireless router (WPA enabled) connected to my dsl line, four
> computers (A B C D) connected to a wired switch, and a wireless card in A
> (windows xp pro).
>
> I want to allow B C and D to access the internet through the wireless card
> in A, so I added the LAN connection and the wireless connection to a
> bridge.
> Everything worked fine, but the wireless connection disconnected.
>
> Any suggestions?