wireless question

[David A. Bandel]

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 10:41:54 -0500
dep <dep at linuxandmain.com> 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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