I want to connect two LANs wirelessly. The primary LAN has a Graphite
(old) Apple Airport Base Station, my DSL connection, and several
machines. The Airport is running NAT and DHCP and assigns 10.x.x.x
addresses.
The second LAN, which I want to connect to the first via wireless, has a
single FreeBSD PC and a Linksys WAP11 v2.2 (the new style). I'd like it
have this second LAN talk to the primary one and use the Airport for
NAT/DHCP.
Can the WAP11 v2.2 act as a wireless client of the Airport? Linksys
claims you can do this between two WAP11s, but they say that other
devices (like the Airport) won't work. For those of you familiar with
the WAP11, I want to run it in "access point client" mode where it both
bridges to the primary LAN and accepts connections from wireless clients.
If I can't get the WAP11 to act as a wireless client for the Airport,
should I:
1) get another device that can talk to the Airport? (recommendations,
please)
-- for instance, I could get a PCI wireless card for the PC
-- I've also heard that the Linksys WET11 might do what I want
2) find some special firmware for the Airport that will let it talk to
the WAP11
-- will any of the various Karlsnet / Orinoco / etc firmwares do this?
3) get a second WAP11 v2.2
-- has anyone gotten two WAP11 v2.2s to talk to each other? Do you
recommend this?
--Pat
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