Hi Daniel, Lot of thanks for your detail information.
On Thursday 12 September 2002 17:36, Daniel Thor Kristjansson wrote: > ]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. What I meant was can I disconnect Linksys BEFW11S4 from the Terminal Server, connecting the broadband to WAN making it as a broadband router to serve workstations (with OS) and notebooks with files sharing only. Thanks Stephen 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 -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
