]1) Can I use its 4 ports to link directly to diskless workstations if I only
]have 4 workstations. To increase the number of diskless workstations
]served can I bridge the port via a hub.
Yes, & Yes, I don't know how many routes it can store, but it is
definately more than 4, probably more than 200.
]2) Another application
]Can I use this device as broadband router for sharing broadband without going
]through Terminal Server to serve workstations with hard disc directly.
Not quite sure what you mean here, it can be set-up to NAT from the
10-Base-T WAN port to the router side, from which the Wireless is
bridged. Or you can ignore the WAN port and set-up a different gateway
or NAT gateway. You also keep the WAN port, and set up another gateway
on the router side with a DHCP server that hands out different gateways
for different MAC addresses, this is a little complicated, but if you're
setting up diskless workstations I doubt you'd have any problems setting
this up.
Think of the BEF as three devices
10Base-T -- [Broadband router] -- Port 0 [6 way SWITCH]
| | | | |
Port 1 2 3 4 [5 Wireless Bridge(AP)]
The Broadband router acts as a router, keeping local broadcast packets
off the internet, plus can do PPPoE, NAT, DHCP, etc. But you can turn
off it's DHCP & PPPoE, and maybe even the NAT. The switch broadcasts
broadcast frames and directs point to point frames from one port to the
next, unlike a hub which broadcasts everything. The Wireless Bridge
effectively is another switch that sits on one of the ports of the
explicit switch (It's also sort of a hub since all frames share the
same medium, but I believe it repeats data sent to it from a client in
case the receiving client is out of reach of the sending client. That's
how I understand infrastructure mode, but I haven't read the spec
myself.) The switch must keep track of what MAC addresses belong to what
port, so there is a limit to how many hubs you can hang off of it, but
it is likely to be much bigger than anything you plan to do, memory
measured in bytes is pretty cheap these days. Gone are the days of
mercury lines.
-- Daniel
]
]Thanks in advance.
]
]Stephen Liu
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