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In-Reply-To: <429E708D.9030808@rollanet.org>; from Sam Lewis on Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 09:35:57PM -0500
Date:  Thu, 2 Jun 2005 19:18:33 +0100
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From:  John Poltorak <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
To:  os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com
Subject: [OS2Wireless] Setting up wireless router

On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 09:35:57PM -0500, Sam Lewis wrote:
> John Poltorak wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 11:10:42AM -0500, Sam Lewis wrote:

> > As I  
> >understand it, my ADSL router is currently acting like a bridge between  
> >the ADSL interface and the Ethernet interface.
> >  
> >
> 
> Well a bridge is typically a device that connects two different types of 
> network media together.  A wireless bridge connects a wired and wireless 
> network together.  A T1/ISDN bridge would connect two networks together 
> across a T1 or ISDN link.  Bridges don't route network traffic between 
> two networks.  So you would need a router to route packets between the 
> internet, a public network, and your Lan, a private network.

In my case I have three physical networks. I don't know if I can/should 
bridge all three to make it look like one logical network.
 
> >What I can't figure out is how to incorporate WLAN into this.
> >  
> >
> 
> I thought you had a wireless router?


It's an ASUS ADSL wireless router which contains a four port ethernet hub 
in addition to being a wireless AP and ADSL modem.

> 
> >Presumably the WLAN interface must also set up in bridge mode so would 
> >have the same IP address as the the Ethernet interface. At this point my 
> >mind goes blank since I can't figure out how this could possibly work.
> >
> 
> 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. 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. 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. 

 
> Sam
> 
> 
> Scanned by WinProxy
> http://www.Ositis.com/


-- 
John


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