Need help...

[elm669]

Our pesky cat has chewed through the Ethernet cable running down stairs to the router for the last time. I need to figure out a way to cut out the cable and still have access to the wireless capable router.

I have a spare box setup with an Ethernet card and a wireless card, what I'm trying to do is get the spare computer to pass packets from the router across the wireless card to the wired network and back transparently . I guess it's called "Packet Forwarding"



from internet: [internet] > [router] > [computer with wireless and Ethernet] > [wired network] > [wired computer]

to internet: [wired computer] > [wired network] > [computer with wireless card and Ethernet] > [router] > [internet]

Is this possible?

 

[Spartacus]

On the machine with the wired NIC and wireless NIC, go to Network Connections, select both of the NICS and create a Bridge. I think that will do it for you.

I had a customer where it was a pet bunny that chewed the ethernet cable and fried the NIC.

If I was faced with that I would run the ethernet cable inside the wall to make it inaccessable to the cat. Then I'd maybe run another exposed ethernet cable with 120VAC on it as "bait".

Was it the movie Christmas Vacation where the family cat chewed through the Christmas light wires and then the cat caught fire and ran under the chair? Funny movie.

 

[Farva]

Was it the movie Christmas Vacation where the family cat chewed through the Christmas light wires and then the cat caught fire and ran under the chair? Funny movie.

Yes, yes it was

Older National Lampoon was great, but now.....