On 4/20/19 6:40 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
On 04/19/19 21:04, Samuel Sieb wrote:
That's not what you want. I don't know why you're trying to make a network bridge on your computer.
. Ok, I can accept that based on you greater knowledge, but what's in a name? I want to connect a wide area network to a local area network but a network bridge wont work? The procedure for doing it was well written and quite clear so I thought I would try that.
A bridge is for directly connecting multiple interfaces. One example is if you want your virtual machine to be directly accessible on the network. Another is in a wifi router, there's usually a bridge between the wifi interface and the ethernet interface.
I guess you are saying that I should use NAT? I will continue googling for a procedure for doing that,
Yes, NAT is probably what you want. That hides a private network behind a single external IP address. However, I don't understand why you're doing this on your computer. This is something that is used on a firewall/gateway system.