RE: [PLUG] wrt54g driving me nuts.

["George Gallen" <ggallen@slackinc.com>]

Hook up the wireless router's WAN port to the wired routers LAN's
   Then powerup the wireless router, it should get it's IP from the
   wired router, and let the wireless router assign IP's via it's
   DHCP to any wireless connections.

So anything on the wired router could be 192.168.0.x and anything
   on the wirelss router could be 192.168.100.x (you should be able
   to set the starting/stopping IP point for dhcp on most routers).

you could do that with multiple wireless routers into a wired router
   as long as the IP's being assigned are unique and each wireless
   router is on it's own channel....

George

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org
> [mailto:plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org]On Behalf Of Doug Crompton
> Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 2:30 PM
> To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] wrt54g driving me nuts.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Lee Marzke wrote:
> 
> > The WRT-54G's *are* access points.  The WAP-54's are not 
> supported yet as
> > far as I understand and lack protection of the boot code - 
> avoid them.
> >
> 
> Thanks for the version info Lee. Maybe I am using the wrong 
> terminology.
> When I say "access point" what I want to do is just connect 
> the 54g to my
> local network on one of it's LAN ports and have wireless access to my
> laptop. My question is what settings need to be made to minimally
> accomplish this, security aside for the moment. I see 
> conflicting advice
> on this. I assume I do not want to use the WAN port but 
> rather one of the
> LAN ports?
> 
> There are so many versions and different options that it is 
> hard to pin
> this down. For instance there is no way on the one I have now 
> to turn off
> NAT. I just want to connect an existing 192.168 (nat'ed) network to
> wireless. I don't even need DHCP as that exists on a upstream router.
> 
> Doug
> 
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