Re: [PLUG] Home Networking Questions/Solutions

["William H. Magill" <magill@mcgillsociety.org>]

On 07 Oct, 2004, at 08:39, cms wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 October 2004 19:16, John Sladek wrote:
> > I think your drawing looks fine. You could pick up a Linksys wireless
> > router and put it in whe you show the wireless access point. You would
> > pretty much be running two different lans....
>
> Will this be an issue if I using DHCP? In other words, will the 
> wireless
> access point be able to get multiple IP addresses from the wired 
> router, to
> assign to whatever machines connect to it? I would imagine this is a 
> feature
> of most wireless routers/access points.?.?

It's all in the configuration.

If the "router" is in fact configured to be a bridge, and its own DHCP
capabilities "turned off," then it will simply pass any DHCP requests 
along.

This is usually possible, but is probably NOT the default configuration.

T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
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