[Discuss] Host chaining?

[taras]

It's painful to see blind leading the blind. I think what you want is 
ethernet bridging. Solution: Bridge the two interfaces on the linux box 
and it would act somewhat like a switch. Google it.

However the fact that you are using wifi makes it messy because for 
protocol reasons you can't easily bridge wifi with normal ethernet.
a) I think your options are to run openvpn on the router(if you 
can)+linux pc -> then bridge the vpn interface on linux pc with the 
ethernet port. Not fun, but cheap.
b) Buy an another linksys wrt and use it to bridge in WDS mode,
c) Suffer with a subnet that you don't want. Super easy.

Taras

Dustin Nicholas Jenkins wrote:
>
> 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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>> Adam Parkin
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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
>
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