Chromium_Steel Posted June 11, 2014 Report Share Posted June 11, 2014 Hi I was wondering if someone might be able to help me with a personal project that I’ve been working on. The short version of it is that I want to make a self-contained wireless bridge kit to allow me to connect my computers Ethernet port to another, this is because of rules regarding what’s allowed to plugged into the network it has to appear although my computer is physically connected with an Ethernet cable. I have the wireless part down but I don’t really know enough about the communications standards surrounding Ethernet cables to write up the forwarding code for it. Can anyone recommend a book or website which could help me better understand Ethernet communications standards I’ve tried looking around and haven’t found anything particularly useful. Thank you in advance for any help you can provide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnFlower Posted June 12, 2014 Report Share Posted June 12, 2014 I'm not entirely sure what you're asking here. Are you wanting to fool the router into thinking you're connected directly with an ethernet cable (probably impossible)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chromium_Steel Posted June 12, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2014 (edited) it's not impossible, i've done similar things before in principle. The problem that i've got here is that unlike with a simple two wire serial channel i don't know what data I'm forwarding to where for all i know the lines could be bi directional on set conditions, and i just can't seem to get a decent break down of the line; i can get nice pretty pictures showing how to wire them in but i can't find any information regarding how the two systems talk to each other or the direction of the data. idealy i'm looking for a source to explain how data is handled by ethernet ports. Edited June 12, 2014 by Chromium_Steel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dae314 Posted June 12, 2014 Report Share Posted June 12, 2014 If I understood your question correctly, the general category of information you're looking for should be under the IEEE 802.3 standard. Look for stuff on that. http://www.ieee802.org/3/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chromium_Steel Posted June 12, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2014 (edited) That’s absolutely perfect thank you. I have a vast amount of reading to start Edited June 12, 2014 by Chromium_Steel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnFlower Posted June 13, 2014 Report Share Posted June 13, 2014 Still doesn't answer what you're trying to do... Reading the IEEE standards wont help you understand your own problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dae314 Posted June 13, 2014 Report Share Posted June 13, 2014 I don't expect it to be a silver bullet that will solve all of his problems. To be honest I don't quite understand what he's trying to do, but I did identify that the main question he had in his post was exactly how data is passed on the physical/link layers in the ethernet standard. That question should be covered in the IEEE standards documents or documents related to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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