On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 10:41:54 -0500 dep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > greets, folks! > > i am hoping to do a little bit of wirelessness here, largely -- no, > entirely -- so that my wife can take her notebook machine out of her > office and up by the fireplace (it was several degrees below zero > here again this morning). problem is, i already have a nice hardwired > network set up here, the lone purpose of which is to firewall and to > give all the machines internet access via the cable modem. i am not > especially eager to move everything to wireless. > > what i'm wondering, then, is whether it's possible to use one of the > existing ports on my router, put a wireless box on it, put a wireless > pcmcia nic in the notebook, and have it all work. and, if so, whether > there's any special trick to making it work. it seems as if this > ought to be okay, but it might also be that there would be some sort > of dhcp collision or something, by chaining a wireless box (router, > right?) after another router. > > ideas?
Understand a wireless access device (a residential gateway, access point, whatever)
will carry an IP so you can manage it, but it's a pure bridge -- just a way to pass
from wireless to wired. DHCP will pass right through.
Ciao,
David A. Bandel
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