I have two XP Pro boxes, one with wireless and ethernet connection (box 1) and one with just ethernet connection (box 2). I successfully used XP software bridging to connect the two machines and was able to get a TCP/IP address for box2 and browse the internet. After shutting down box2 and later restarting it I was not able to access DHCP and manually configuring IP still doesn't let me browse network. All pings are unreachable. Box1 still has a connection on wireless side but can't ping box2. Box1 and 2 both plug into a Linksys ethernet switch and show connection lights. I have removed bridge and recreated it, but no success. Is it possible that I need to remove MAC Bridge Miniport as well? Have not physically uninstalled NIC's yet.
5/24 After reading online I checked box2 and it had automatically created a bridge to the 1394. Deleted bridge and disabled 1394 and was able to connect to bridge on box1 but after restart lost link again, but no new bridge had been created on box2. Isn't a bridge connection supposed to be persistent? It should re-establish a connection after reboot. Any ideas?
5/24 After reading online I checked box2 and it had automatically created a bridge to the 1394. Deleted bridge and disabled 1394 and was able to connect to bridge on box1 but after restart lost link again, but no new bridge had been created on box2. Isn't a bridge connection supposed to be persistent? It should re-establish a connection after reboot. Any ideas?
