Windows XP question...

[Treibenschnell]

In Windows XP, under the Network Connections heading, there exists a connection for a Network Bridge... what is that for?

[wrxmr2eater]

Network bridging in XP allows you to connect your XP machine with multiple network interfaces (ethernet, wireless, usb, etc) to each other without a router. What this does is allow for inexpensive connections of simple networks.

If this isn't clear here is a good explanation. Link

Example:

Computer1 ----- XP with two interfaces ----- Computer3
|___________________| |_______________|

A Bridge will make those two connections one logical network looking like:

Computer1 -----XP with two interfaces ----- Computer3
|___________________|_______________|

[Treibenschnell]

Thanks for the link...

although this stinks:

• You cannot create a bridge connection on a computer running Windows 2000 or earlier versions of Windows.

I was wondering if I could bridge my XP laptop with my 2000 workstation.

[wrxmr2eater]

I believe that is only a disclaimer to not look for how to setup the bridge from a 2000 machine. The bridge is managed by the machine with 2 nics or interfaces, and it has to have XP. The others that are connected with their single NIC dont have to be XP.

[POS Racing]

Could he just do a peer to peer setup??

[ccage]

Could he just do a peer to peer setup??

Yep.

Chuck

[Titus]

I am really surprised that no one has told him to go by an Apple. Perhaps MS bashing has finally died down?

[POS Racing]

I am really surprised that no one has told him to go by an Apple. Perhaps MS bashing has finally died down?

I'm thinking the folks with Apples don't want to help 3Bean!

[Titus]

I'm thinking the folks with Apples don't want to help 3Bean!

I'm frankly surprised that no one has sent him on a wild goose chase to screens that don't exist, just for sport.

[sammm]

Could he just do a peer to peer setup??

Check out the brain on POS!

[Titus]

Hey Bean... this is really dangerous. What you need to do is disable the Network Bridge cipher link. Start-> Control Panel-> Administrative Tools-> Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Configuration-> then set the cipher cache to 0k. That should take care of it for you!

[Treibenschnell]

I'm frankly surprised that no one has sent him on a wild goose chase to screens that don't exist, just for sport.

You would, you bastard!

[POS Racing]

Check out the brain on POS!

I read about it on the internet!

Peer to Peer is what we use here at the World Headquarters! :cool:

[Treibenschnell]

Nerd!!!