[Discuss] Host chaining?

[Dustin Nicholas Jenkins]

On 15-Oct-06, at 11:41 AM, Adam Parkin wrote:

> 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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Hi Adam,

	My Linux box is a MythTV box, which handles all my Media stuff (DVD, 
HDTV, PVR).  My Xbox, which is modded and is using XBMC as a dashboard, 
is still just an Xbox and not a media frontend for the MythTV box.  I'm 
going to try bridging as Steven suggested to try and get it working.

Cheers,
Dustin