Wifi bridge and an odd problem...

[skar]

Hello all,

Picture a Farm. The office is in the main house. They have two PC's which are networked into a switch. There is also a small server acting as a firewall and Internet connection. All this works fine!

They now need to give the PC at the Lagoon, which is about 200meters away, access to the Internet via the existing network.

So...
I've setup a WiFi bridge using two Netgear bridges and two yagi external antennas. (Boy are these big!) Pluged one into the LAN and the other, using a xover cable, into the back of the Lagoon PC.

From the Lagoon I can ping the other PC's and gateway (the small server) all looks fine. But I can get access to the Internet. Which is odd.
The Firewall is a simple one but works. Nothing in the config is stopping this new PC to gain access. I'm using an addressing scheme of 192.168.1.0/24 across the entire network. Everything is fixed IP.
I've given both bridges the same default gateway as the rest of the PC's. I'm thinking its something to do with the bridge and IP.
Any pointers to things I can check?

TIA

 

[kaptk2]

Might be a ARP issue. Try power cycling all the routers and switches and see if that helps. Also you will want to reboot the small server or issues an arp flush command of some sort.