Bridging wifi to ethernet

[Craig McLean]

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Douglas Phillipson wrote:
> My LUG recently had to move to a Library with WIFI access only.  Running
> FC4 on my HP Pavilion laptop, how specifically, can I bridge my WIFI
> interface (eth1) over to my eth0 interface so I can hook in all the
> wired ethernet users to get access to the WIFI networks DHCP server?  I
> don't have to recompile a Kernel I hope...  I can still use my laptop
> normally while I'm bridging for everyone else I hope?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Doug P
> 

Doug,
Assuming your wireless device can be placed in promiscuous mode and have
it's source address spoofed then you should be able to use the "bridge"
module.
The "bridge" module should be in FC4 by default, check out the manpages
for brctl and http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/Bridge

C.

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