On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 01:43:56PM -0500, Sam Lewis wrote:

 

Typically in a router your WAN interface has a internet IP address assigned by your ISP and your Local interface (the wired and wireless) has an IP address that is on the same network as the rest of your ethernet devices.
  

       

Maybe typically, but not applicable in my case.

I have five static IP addresses - one for my ADSL wireless router, two for my servers and one which I normally use with desktop. The other is allocated as and when I need to use it.

     

Does your ISP assign these addresses to you?
   

My ISP has allocated five IP adresses to me
 

 

What I can't figure out is whether the WLAN interface on the wireless router will have the same static IP address as the ethernet interface.

     

In my experience with the Linksys routers they have the same address.  The router has one IP address and this adress is the Gateway or Default Route.  Your hardware may be different so maybe someone has experience with what you are using.

Now if your ISP is assigning you all of these IP addresses then they may be doing the routing for you which would explain why your bridging configuration is working.  So I would think that your Wireless interface is already active with the IP address you have been using for the wired interface.  Your Cat5 and Wifi connections are most likely connected together via an internal Hub/Switch.

   

At the moment the device acts as a bridge between the ADSL and ethernet interfaces, but I don't know whether to set the WLAN interface as a bridge or router.      

Did you try assigning your spare IP address to your WiFi computer and see if get a connection?    

I don't think I have the WLAN interface on my wireless router configured
so I wouldn't expect it to connect. Should I assume that it using the same IP address as the ethernet interface?
 

 

Your Router/Bridge should have a default SSID but you can change that if you want.    

I've just checked and can see that it has an ESSID set to Artem, so it must be something I changed a long time ago since I have a couple of Artem cards. I also notice that the status is set to 'Activating'. Is that the usual status?
 

 

In MPTS field of your WiFi computer leave the SSID field blank and your WiFi card will pickup any Wireless network.

What ISP are you using?
   

It's a small one in the UK.
 

 

Sam

   

     

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