>  > I know one can use an airport ready equipped computer as an airport base
>  > station..I use the airport card in my Pismo as a base station, and my 2400
>  > with  Silver Orinoco connects to it, but can one turn  a 2400 into a base
>  > station, using the same card?...tried to connect to the internet either by
>  > modem card or ethernet card, and simultaneously use the Lucent Orinoco, but
>  > can't seem to have the two cards work together...it's probably 
>not possible,
>  > but anybody tried this?

>No, as the 2400 can only handle one network interface at a time. It will not
>recognize concurrently added interfaces.

Not at all - Open Transport can deal with multiple interfaces, and 
has been able to for some time. The only issue is that Apple provides 
no user interface to do that with the classic Mac OS (chiefly, you 
need a way to add routes and assign IPs to multiple active 
interfaces).

One third-party piece of software that fills that gap is IPNetrouter. 
You can use it to simultaneously talk to two or more different IP 
networks on different NICs (or one local network and a default 
route), and you can also use it to make a router or NAT gateway on 
your 2400 between any network interfaces you choose (the software 
will have to remain running to provide NAT). Making a bridge would 
require different software, but I'm not sure whether the Airport 
software base station does that either.

You can also use LinuxPPC for all sorts of arbitrary networking 
weirdness, though I haven't tested it for Orinoco support yet.

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