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.

As I  understand it, my ADSL router is currently acting like a bridge between  the ADSL interface and the Ethernet interface.
 

What I can't figure out is how to incorporate WLAN into this.
 

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.