[MLB-WIRELESS] Wireless connection of 2 wired networks

[Jason Hecker]

Have a look at the man page of brctl in Linux.  

It mentions that the bridge code keeps track of what MAC addresses lie on
which ethernet interface an only forwards the necessary MAC frames.  Old
school bridges were dumb and forwarded everything which is pointless.  
The Linux kernel bridge and dedicated AP's with a bridge mode all support
this smart bridging.  I am sure the BSD's would do this too.



On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Grant McHerron wrote:

> 
> 
> Hi Folks,
> 
> For what it's worth, I'd rather set them up as routers rather than via a 
> bridge otherwise *all* traffic on the main LAN must be sent over the 
> wireless link to the office out the back, even if it's not for that office. 
> This can waste the bandwidth for the poor buggers out in that office and 
> (if I understand things right) could slow down the main network given it's 
> probably sitting at 100Mb/s and the wireless link will be way slower than that.
> 
> Also, you'd probably want to look at the security aspect of the link - can 
> someone from the outside world use it to monitor/access your LAN? Is this 
> an issue? If so, consider firewalls at both ends and an encrypted VPN link, 
> etc.
> 
> I'm no wireless expert and perhaps I am too paranoid, but I'd be 
> considering the above and getting concrete answers from those who do know 
> (eg: some of the others on this list :)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Grant
> 
> 
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