Question : Bridging?

Recent changes to the network I use mean that the hub I have to connect my 3 workstations together confuses the hell out of the routers. Apparantly the floor boxes are now patched straight to the routers and if you have a hub the routing tables can't work out which MAC address to use.

I've go one spare NT box which i can install a couple of spare NICs on, so can I use this as bridge and run my own network (i.e. Hub, NT workstation and Linux box)off the back of it? If so how do I configure the network cards in NT?

Cheers, Rob

Answer : Bridging?

Having played around a little the Network Bridging facility is actually built into Windows XP if you have that:

"To create a bridge between two or more network connections, open the Network Connections folder. Hold down the Ctrl key while clicking the desired connections, then right click one of them and select Bridge Connections."

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/using/productdoc/en/default.asp?url=/windowsxp/home/using/productdoc/en/hnw_understanding_bridge.asp
or http://www.lpt.com/windowsnetworking/regusers/wxpbrdge.htm

This is a link to WinBridge for any Windows (WIn95 or above) which will bridge together two network cards aswell:

http://www-stud.fh-fulda.de/~fd1557/WinBridge/main-uk.htm

hth

Steve