[Discuss] Host chaining?

[Dustin Nicholas Jenkins]

On 15-Oct-06, at 1:41 PM, Steven Kurylo wrote:

>> 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,

	Many thanks for the reply.  I started doing that actually based on 
what I've read, so thanks for confirming I'm going the right way.  Do 
you have experience with this?  I've read that doing it wirelessly has 
flaws since it can't spoof properly, I didn't read it fully as it was 
from 2003 and perceived it as obsolete.  Also, do I need a crossover 
cable from the Linux machine to my Xbox?

Thanks,
Dustin