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Date:  Wed, 01 Jun 2005 11:10:42 -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 03:17:22PM +0100, Howard Winter wrote:
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>>John,
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>>On Tue, 31 May 2005 16:58:17 +0100, John Poltorak wrote:
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>>>I need some help setting up my wireless router - I've 
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>>had it for years but 
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>>>only ever use it as router between my ADSL line and my 
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>>ethernet 
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>>>network.
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>>>The WLAN Configuration allows it to be set in either 
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>>Bridged or Routed 
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>>>mode. It's currently set to Bridged, and the Ethernet 
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>>interface has a 
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>>>fixed IP address which I want to keep.
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>>>Can I use the same IP address on both the WLAN and 
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>>Ethernet interface? I'm 
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>>>really not very clear about how this should hang 
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>>together.
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>>As I understand it (and I stand to be corrected!) 
>>Bridging is a connection between two parts *of the same 
>>network*, so not only can you use the same IP address on 
>>either side, but you must!  It acts as a single "point" 
>>on the network, with different physical interfaces, but 
>>there's no way for it to have two addresses.
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>>Routing, on the other hand, connects two seperate 
>>networks, so has a different address on each side.
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>I'm still no wiser....
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>I have a device with three interfaces  ADSL, Ethernet and WLAN. If I set 
>up WLAN in bridge mode, does that mean anything on the WLAN network is on 
>the same network as the Ethernet network?
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>I think I would prefer adsl/ethernet to be bridged and adsl/wlan to be 
>routed, but have no idea if that is feasable or not.
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>>Cheers,
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>>Howard Winter
>>The H2Org
>>http://www.ecomstation.co.uk
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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
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