[MLB-WIRELESS] Bridging with Win XP?

Random random at sectoid.org
Mon Jun 24 09:45:45 EST 2002


Bridging in XP does just that, it 'bridges'. So yes NetBEUI works across
the bridge, as does everything else. You are on the right track...

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Martin Laukkanen (random at sectoid.org)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Hovel [mailto:joe.hovel at med.monash.edu.au] 
> Sent: Monday, 24 June 2002 12:38 AM
> To: melbwireless at wireless.org.au
> Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] Bridging with Win XP?
> 
> 
> Is it possible to use Win XP's capability of bridging between 
> network adapters to create a "pseudo" access point? Will this 
> bridging capacity of Win XP allow NetBeui access to remote 
> machines (given that NetBEUI isn't routable)? I take it this 
> wouldn't be a "real" access point, because the wireless card 
> would still be in ad-hoc (or peer-to-peer) mode. I want to 
> use this to access resources on both the wired and wireless 
> legs of the network - printers, Internet access etc. Am I 
> missing a concept here? It seems to me that the functionality 
> would be the same.... Joe
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