On 05/14/2011 07:10 PM, Rick Sewill wrote: > On Saturday, May 14, 2011 03:27:53 PM JD wrote: > This setup sounds like wifi bridge mode as opposed to wifi ad-hoc mode. > > Question: in wifi bridging, does the packet from the Powerbook, > which is destined for the Fedora, go through the gateway, > or can the packet still go directly from the Powerbook to the Fedora? > > If the answer is the former, I would ask why the gateway doesn't > relay the packet to the Fedora. if the answer is the latter, > I would assume we should see entries in the ARP tables, in both machines, > for the other device in question, and would ask what are the ARP entries > in both the Fedora and the Powerbook. > > Could you tell us the make/model of the gateway please. > I read, on the Internet, different wifi gateways have different capabilities. > > >
Good thoughts Rick .. The wifi bridges sometimes have 2 'modes' ... one allows wireless clients to see one another - the other mode does not. It is possible that his wifi router is set to disallow wireless to wireless traffic, and that may be a user settable option in the router. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
