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Date:  Wed, 01 Jun 2005 21:35:57 -0500
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From:  Sam Lewis <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
To:  os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com
Subject: [OS2Wireless] Setting up wireless router

John Poltorak wrote:

>On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 11:10:42AM -0500, Sam Lewis wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Well here's my $.02 worth.  I don't use a Wireless router, instead I use 
>>a PC with two NIC's as my router.  But the principles are the same.  You 
>>want to use the router mode.  You want your ADSL part of the router to 
>>be a DHCP client and your ISP will assign an IP address to it, unless 
>>your ISP has given you a Static IP address, in that case you keep that 
>>IP address which is visible on the Internet.  Then you can assign a 
>>Static IP address to your local Lan side of your network, popular Local 
>>IP ranges are 192.168.x.x or 10.0.x.x.  Then you can turn on the DHCP 
>>Server in your router and setup your workstations as DHCP clients and 
>>your done.  Your Gateway and maybe your DNS will be the routers static 
>>IP address you assigned to the Local Lan side.
>>Hope this pertains to your case,
>>Sam
>>    
>>
>
>This isn't how I want things at all. I have numerous real static IP 
>addresses which are available on my ethernet network and this arrangement 
>has been working for several years. I don't use DHCP at all.
>

You can static IP if you want.  I didn't mean to imply in my suggestion 
that you couldn't do that.  Just make sure you include your 
Gateway/Default route address and your DNS servers.

> 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.

>What I can't figure out is how to incorporate WLAN into this.
>  
>

I thought you had a wireless router?

>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.

Sam


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