[Discuss] Host chaining?

[Steven Kurylo]

> 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.

You want an ethernet bridge.  You'll need to bridge eth0 and wlan0 together.

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/BRIDGE-STP-HOWTO/index.html

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Steven Kurylo