A friend asked me for information on building a brouter for linux - bridging wireless to wired. not having a single clue what the hell he was on about and google not appearing to be very helpful i thought id ask here at the fountain of knowledge you guys probably thinkin im just entirely stupid or braindead for being clueless about it but any chance you could explain/help? lol cheers dudes!
When you say "build" is he just looking for something to plonk on a whitebox and run as a router ? If so then maybe take a look at something like
www.smoothwall.org (firewall/router does support some wireless nics) www.clarkconnect.com (pre built linux distro for router/SOHO style setup)
Both the above are free or at least have free versions.
If not then you could configure a normal *nix box fairly easily to bridge two network cards that are already configured .. have a look in the network howtos over at http://www.tldp.org/ there is bound to be info there.
btw a network "bridge" is nothing more than a way of connecting two diverse networks (often of different media type ie a wireless network to a wired one)
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Posted - 10 January 2005 : 21:35:59
