[lug] Wireless router question (OT)

[Chip Atkinson]

Thanks for this information!  I'm now starting to see how little I know
about wireless networking.  I guess it's not just a matter of knowing one
or two things and transferring them to ethernet.  To the web!

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Sean Reifschneider wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 01:13:34PM -0700, Jeffrey Siegal wrote:
> >It depends on the firmware in the device.  Some routers support bridge 
> >mode, some do not.  If the standard firmware doesn't support it, some 
> 
> It's not bridging that is required.  One of the devices needs to support
> 802.11 "managed" mode to be able to talk to the a regular 802.11
> "master" mode AP.  Or they'd both have to support ad-hoc mode, but
> that's probably not the way you want to go.
> 
> There is a device from one of the vendors, model number (IIRC) is WET11.
> It run explicitly in managed mode and has ethernet on it, to allow an
> ethernet network to connect to a wireless network.
> 
> The Linksys WRT-54G has this capability with the third-party firmware,
> and is under $70.  It's a full AP, with 4 port switch, another ethernet
> interface, and 802.11b/g.  They work great.  With new firmware you can
> set it to run as a client to an existing WiFi network.  We use this for
> Hacking Society for people who do not bring WiFi cards, they can just
> plug into the local WRT-54G and off they go.
> 
> There's also another thing called "WDS", which effectively allows an AP
> to be both master and managed mode.  In other words, you can have an AP
> for an area get it's net connectivity via WiFi using just a single
> radio.  I haven't had any luck getting this working, though.
> 
> Sean
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