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Bridge from Wifi to Ethernet not working (Windows 10)
Wi-Fi cannot be bridged to Ethernet. This is not a Windows limitation in any way. There’s a good explanation on why that is in the old OpenWrt wiki.
Instead, you should use Internet Connection ...
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How do I access my modem's GUI when it's in bridged mode?
In case of Arris routers (such as the DG1670) when in bridged mode the UI is available at:
http://192.168.100.1:8080/
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How do I access my modem's GUI when it's in bridged mode?
Managed to find my GUI in new address:
http://192.168.100.1 (original was 192.168.0.1 before bridged mode)
logged in and turned it back to router mode and after waiting it to reset
Clicked network ...
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Linux bridge network influenced by route table
Bridging doesn't work the way you think it works. :-)
A bridge is only concerned with OSI level 2 (Ethernet frames). On this level, IP addresses etc. don't exist. Conceptually, you can think of a ...
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Bridge from Wifi to Ethernet not working (Windows 10)
Wi-Fi CAN be bridged to Ethernet on Windows 10.
Connect to Internet via WiFi.
Take note of your private IP settings
(e.g. IP:192.168.1.44 SM:255.255.255.0 GW:192.168.1.1 DNS:192.168.1.1)
In Control ...
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How does Linux determine the default MAC address of a bridge device?
Behavior might possibly have changed in the past depending on kernel version, but currently (here: kernel 5.17.x) it appears that:
if the bridge has not be manually given a MAC address then
it ...
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Lost network connectivity on Hetzner with Netplan bridge
The MAC address is randomized if you do not explicitly set it in your bridge configuration in Netplan.
If I recall correctly, Hetzner restricts the IP address you are allocated to your server's MAC ...
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Bridge Wifi to Ethernet port on Mac, same IPs as rest of network
You can’t bridge to a client-mode Wi-Fi interface. Bridging leaves MAC addresses as-is, and APs don’t accept frames from MAC addresses that have not authenticated and associated with the AP. For two ...
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Can I connect 2 Ethernet cables from the same router to a bridge mode router?
Does connecting another cable to the bridged mode router will help the internet speed by any way? Like the idea of dual NICs.
In your setup – no, likely not. (It's the same with dual NICs too.)
The ...
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WDS -- Difference between Active WDS & Passive WDS
When configured for active WDS, all transmissions made to the other endpoint are done in 4-address mode. A side configured for active WDS can make the first transmission or it can wait for the other ...
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How do I access my modem's GUI when it's in bridged mode?
I ran into this issue when switching the internet connection on my Linksys WRT1900ACS from DSL to a mobile hotspot. I'm bridging through the 5 Ghz radio and serving clients through the 2.4 Ghz side. ...
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Tomato router: Bridge to Ethernet LAN, Devices access via Wireless
The solution was almost like Wireless Ethernet Bridge, except that Wireless Ethernet Bridge sets up the LinkSys Wifi as a "client" - ie. other devices can't connect to the Wifi on the LinkSys. (This ...
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Virtualbox bridged network is unreachable
You're missing default route for traffic outside the scope of the subnet.
Run following command as privileged user:
ip route add default via ip-of-router-on-local-network dev enp0s3
This should ...
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Wireless bridge between ZTE ZXHN H298N and WAG320N
(Edit) I answered the question first and when re-reading, I realized that wireless part of the question is in the title so I looked into that also.
Specifically about the "wireless bridge":
In ...
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Can I Secure a Hotel Network by Setting Up My Own Access Point
No. Adding an additional layers do not make the insecure hops go away.
If you want to secure your connection over something like an insecure wifi or dodgey hotel network you need something like a VPN ...
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Knowing if router is actually working as bridge?
Bridged mode doesn't do what you think it does: It provides a bridge between a wireless network (where it acts as a client) and wired network (via its LAN ports). It's for connecting wired-only ...
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Why do Linux bridges show two MAC address entries for local interfaces?
This is similar in my Debian 9:
# brctl showmacs br0
port no mac addr is local? ageing timer
2 00:08:ca:42:2c:02 yes 0.00
2 00:08:ca:42:2c:02 ...
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Bridge a dummy and physical ethernet interface on Linux
They are transmitted, but through the other end of the interface. Which, on "dummy" interfaces, is not attached to anything – that's the entire idea of "dummy" interfaces – so the ...
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Why I cannot ping the ip after I bridged them?
I made my raspberry pi into a router.
I created a br0, then addif both eth0 and wlan0 to br0.
That's not a router. (It'd be a router if it linked two networks together, but right now you have a&...
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Bridging two tap interfaces
Just in case, because you said you are a total noob: A tun (layer 3) or tap (layer 2) interface is the network interface endpoint of an application, and the application can read and write packets from ...
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Why I cannot ping IP address after I bridged it to br0 interface?
If you add network interfaces to a bridge interface, these network interfaces become ports of the bridge. Which means they'll only work on layer 2, and any IP address that's still assigned to them ...
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Why doesn't my bridge transfer DHCP broadcast packets?
Thanks to the discord channel of the r/techsupport subreddit, I got this working by adding a reboot-persistent iptables rules.
> cat /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/99-bridge
#!/bin/sh
INTERFACE=...
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If router is in bridge mode, is it still emitting EMF?
Every single electrical device releases EMF.
"Bridge" Mode in this case is meant for people who don't want the system to act as a router - if you have another router.
While to most 'non ...
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Can't make a route between two tp-link routers
There is a problem with your TP-Link ARCHER C9 configuration.
What you need is to set it up to access point mode (i.e. not to use it as a
router).
To achieve that, as @Tyson pointed out, the TP-Link ...
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My Own WiFi Router + DHCP Server on a Public Wifi
Ugly hack
With Linux a WiFi card can be client and AP simultaneously, see Can a Linux machine act as both a wireless client and access point simultaneously using a single physical WLAN interface?
It ...
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Virtualbox and bridged networking
For a NAT network:
A different network is created and the host is connected to it with a virtual network adapter.
The VM's connected by NAT are not accessible from the outside (real) network until it ...
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Why I cannot ping the ip after I bridged them?
After adding the bridge, you can no longer ping. You need to check route -n. And then delete the entry of the interface that has been bridged. Once that entry is deleted, you can ping ok. Here is an ...
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How to setup a Bridge connection for enp0s3 CentOS7 on Oracle VirtualBox
The steps provided in the link (that you attached) gist work fine.
Probably you forgot to change the line : "BOOTPROTO=none" to "BOOTPROTO=static". Also the gateway should be defined in /etc/sysconfig/...
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Local network set up that allow to connect to any device on the other connected network
You have to understand the concept of subnets and routing tables. Networks are packet based. When your hosts connect to their routers, their routing table, IP address, etc. gets configured via the ...
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VPN, bridge, router or firewall?
TLDR;
You need a firewall to secure your web server, and your router probably already provides this functionality.
DETAILS
All you really need is a firewall & SSL to secure your web server. ...
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