Explain Bridging to me please

[Buckster]

I'm trying to neaten up cabling in the house

and whenever 360 is being played online, my PC is on at same time (360 sits on top)

both are wired to a router in another room

I have 2 ethernet ports on my PC

if connect the 360 to the other ethernet port, and bridge the connection so the 360 can access the outside world.

are their any security implicatons for the PC ? or is it literally like the PC and 360 are directly wired to the router ? Does the traffic for instance go through my software firewall on my PC ?

thanks for any help, Mark.

 

[iraiguana]

You are sharing the connection of the PC with the Xbox so yes you could have that as a security risk but, what exactly are you doing on your xbox which might cause a problem with a pc?

 

[Buckster]

nothing - just was checking that I wasn't opening up some sort of back door security risk to the PC