Quick and Dirty WiFi-Ethernet Bridge - Arch Linux - ASUS Router and Apple Airport Extreme
I have a bunch of ethernet only gadgets in the Home Theater rack including the Emotiva XMC, my Tatasky Set Top Box and a couple of other knick knacks. The HT rack is across the room from my router (ASUS RT-AC68U) and the only way to connect up these machines to the network was to run an ethernet cable from the router across to the rack and then use the airport extreme to connect up all the doodahs to wifi. I wanted to originally use the Airport Extreme to extend the wifi network but being an Apple device, it refused to work with the ASUS router. Tried WDS and an old version of the airport utility to see if I could hack that set up but no joy. Then I realised that the HTPC has both a wired and wifi connection. So I hooked up the wired connection to the airport extreme's "wan/uplink" port. Now we need to set up the HTPC box (running Arch Linux) to "bridge" the wifi and ethernet connections. We could use the bridge-utils tools to do this but I thought it was...