elm669
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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?
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?