On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 16:44 -0800, Brendan Moran wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to use a pair of DI-524 wireless routers to bridge two wired 
> networks.  I know that they contain a wireless access point that is 
> bridged with the 10/100 switch, so this should be doable.  I have one 
> DI-524 connected to a cable modem, and a computer.  The other is 
> connected to the other network.
> 
> Currently, I can access the web interface of either DI-524 from their 
> respective networks.  The internal DI-524 has no wireless connection to 
> the external DI-524.
> 
> I have enabled WEP, and have matching keys on both DI-524s.  The 
> external DI-524 has working internet access, and an IP of 192.168.0.1.  
> The internal DI-524 has an IP of 192.168.0.2.  I can't figure out what's 
> missing here, though it may be that with these devices, what I'm trying 
> to do simply isn't possible.

I think you are confusing terminology.

First off, every wireless "router" can also be used as a WAP (wireless
access point).

A WAP is designed for "infrastructure" mode. In that mode the WAP is
"master" while everything else is "slave". No slave can talk directly to
another slave.

As you can probably guess, in this mode slaves can't talk to each other,
and neither can masters, so no, you can't do what you want with what you
have.

What you need is a device that acts as a wireless bridge. There are two
ways to go about this.

You can search out a WAP that supports the bridging between two WAPs.
These sorts of devices do exist, but are usually much more expensive
then just a standard wireless router (supply vs. demand). The Linksys
WAP11 is capable of such behaviour. Note though that in this mode NO
other clients can use the wireless link, the wireless link is dedicated
to JUST the two WAPs bridging the two ethernet networks.

The second option is to get a wireless adapter meant to put a NON
wireless device onto a wireless network. They are often aimed towards
people with gaming systems like XBox. The benefit with such a setup is
that while the adapter is expensive, you only need one of them, and can
use a cheap wireless router. On top of that you still have a "normal"
wireless network and can use it for other devices. This isn't always
good though since your bridged link will be sharing wireless bandwidth
with everything else.

TTYL

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