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Hi,

So as per the diagram I'm trying to move from a setup where I use ICS to bridging the two networks together. At the moment the Xbox360 lives on a seperate logical network using ICS and this is causing some problems with using the 360 as an extender.

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The problem is when I bridge the two connections together (one is wireless the other wired) and set the IP of the bridge to be 192.168.2.2 (or anything else for that matter) XP complains and tell me there are "IP conflicts" which there aren't :confused:

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For a network that small theres no need for DHCP, you have the cable configurations correct. What you need to do is set static addresses on both xbox and pc, on the xbox make the gateway the wireless pc. Make sure you put the dns server of your isp server in the dns box. hope this helps.
 
Well this is exactly what I have done, static addresses on the PC and Xbox but I get a "duplicate IP" warning and it doesn't work!

From 192.168.2.2 I can't ping 1921.168.2.1 (Router) or 192.168.2.3 (Xbox).

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Restart all your network then check your wireless ap for dhcp clients in the ap it might be used somewhere.
 
you acctually enabled ICS on the desktop machine ? check its nic should be a ICS setting.
 
I know there is nothing else on the network with the IP specified and the DHCP server is off, I'm not using Internet Connection Sharing I'm using bridging they are different things.

ICS = Alllows one machine to connect through another if they are on logically seperate networks.

Bridging = Making two seperate physical networks (e.g. wired ethernet + wireless) into one network.

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HEADRAT said:
I know there is nothing else on the network with the IP specified and the DHCP server is off, I'm not using Internet Connection Sharing I'm using bridging they are different things.

ICS = Alllows one machine to connect through another if they are on logically seperate networks.

Bridging = Making two seperate physical networks (e.g. wired ethernet + wireless) into one network.

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I forgot yeh stupid sorry. how many ports does the wireless ap have? why dont you just connect the xbox into the wireless ap or buy as xbox wireless adaptor.
 
Phnom_Penh said:
AFAIK they need to be on the same subnet. What's the IP of the modem?
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Well everything up to and including the router (not the modem itself) is in 192.168.2.0 255.255.255.0.

Yep one is down in the lounge, the router is upstairs, I followed the instructions I have found exactly but I'm still getting coflicting IP (whatever IP I set it to) and its doesn't work :confused:

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Something like that, the router will take care of that, the problem is that I keep gettting duplicate IP warnings and I'm not able to ping the default gateway of 192.168.2.1 or the Xbox on 192.168.2.3.

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It would depend on what mode the routers in, but it's possible that windows is trying to force the pc's ip to 192.168.0.1, and the modem's ip of 192.168.0.1 is conflicting with it.
 
But I've manually set the IP's :-

Router 192.168.2.1
MCE 192.168.2.2
Xbox 192.168.2.3

there is no DHCP on, everything is manually assigned.

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Sorry I don't follow you, at the moment I've deleted the bridge, every time I try and set the bridge it doesn't work and complains about dupl. IP's

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