[Discuss] Host chaining?

[Adam Parkin]

Dustin Nicholas Jenkins wrote:
> My network consists of the following:
> 
> INTERNET --> Linksys Router --> Linux Media Center --> Xbox
> 
> My Linux Media Center (HTPC) is wireless to my router, which means I 
> have one extra ethernet port that I would like to use to put my Xbox 
> online as I don't have any Cat5/6 outlets in the living room.  Is there 
> a way to set it up such that the Xbox is just another client on my 
> network?  I could just put a DHCP server on my HTPC, but then I'd have a 
> subnet that I don't want.  I guess what I want is my HTPC to be a hub of 
> some kind and both it and the Xbox are leaf nodes.

Sorry my reply won't be of much help, but given that I have an Xbox 360 
I'm interested in hearing more about the Linux Media Center part of your 
setup.  What software are you using for this?  I googled "Linux Media 
Center" and didn't find a piece of software called that.  I did find the 
  GeeXboX distro which seems cool (and I am downloading it as I write 
this), but are you using something else?  Does the setup you have play 
DivX files through the Xbox?  Do you have to do any on the fly 
transcoding for this to work?

As for your actual message, just to clarify: you want to plug your Xbox 
into your Linux box, and then have the Linux box connect wirelessly to 
the router, such that the Xbox can "see" the outside network?  If you 
figure this out as well, I'd love to hear that too as I tried doing this 
a little while back to have my Xbox plugged into my wife's laptop which 
was to connect wirelessly to my router, but couldn't get it to work (I 
wasn't looking at Linux-based solutions though).
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