Wireless bridging tutorial

[Justin Dugger]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Billy Crook <billycrook at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 19:02, Justin Dugger <jldugger at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 1:06 AM, Sean Crago <cragos at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>I've recently come into the possession of a video game console capable
>>>>of connecting to the internet via ethernet.  Unfortunately, no
>>>>ethernet port is within reasonable range.  I have a spare WRT54GL and
>>>>I know there was a thread earlier about alternative linksys firmwares
>>>>and I'm a fan of Tomato.  Does anyone know of a guide on the Web for
>>>>Tomato to set up a wireless bridge for this?
>>>
>>> really shouldn't be complicated at all. Wireless ethernet bridges tend
>>> to be absolutely trivial to setup.
>>
>> I wish I knew why it wasn't working then.  I set it up, each side says
>> it connected to the other.  But packets don't seem to get through =/
>
> When in doubt [of networking] whip tcpdump or wireshark out.

Thanks for all the suggestions.  I've actually solved this problem a
much simpler way.  We have AT&T U-verse here, which is a cable TV over
DSL service.  This needs a set top box around every TV connected to
the internet, and it turns out they also have an ethernet port
available for routing.  Handy.  In the end, wireless bridging is a
Gordian knot. ^_^

Justin