<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Michael Gorven <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael@gorven.za.net">michael@gorven.za.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On Friday 07 May 2010 10:03:20 Josh Brodrick wrote:<br>
> I have a question rather than a pressing problem. I have an ADSL router<br>
> which is connected to the internet, and acts as the dhcp server to 4 wired<br>
> computers and a couple wireless ones. I want to add another old laptop to<br>
> the network (it does not have wireless) but have no more wired ports<br>
> available on the router. From what I understand I can connect it via a<br>
> crossover cable to the second network card on one of my desktops, and use<br>
> firestarter to configure it (All the computers have firestarter installed<br>
> and configured). However, I dont need this additional laptop to have<br>
> internet access, as it only serves as a frontend to mythtv. It therefore<br>
> only needs to be able to communicate on the local network. Any advice on<br>
> how to configure this using firestarter?<br>
<br>
</div></div>The easiest solution is to bridge the two network cards on the desktop so that<br>
it basically acts like a switch. The laptop would DHCP from the ADSL modem and<br>
have full access to the internet. The following in /etc/network/interfaces<br>
should do the trick after installing bridge-utils.<br>
<br>
auto eth0<br>
iface eth0 inet manual<br>
<br>
auto eth1<br>
iface eth1 inet manual<br>
<br>
auto br0<br>
iface br0 iface dhcp<br>
bridge_ports eth0 eth1<br>
bridge_maxwait 5<br>
<br>
Michael<br></blockquote><div><br><br>Hi Michael<br><br>Thanks so much for the quick reply! Just so i understand then, this way the laptop would be assigned its IP and everything directly from the ADSL router, through the desktop (and if looking from the router side just look like any normal pc connected directly to the router?) And would the fact that I have firestarter configured on the desktop not block or affect this bridging in any way? <br>
Thanks so much!<br><br>Josh<br></div></div><br>