Eben King wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Steven Van Tilburg wrote:
>
>> Eben King wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Logan Tygart wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 07:42:10PM -0400, Eben King wrote:
>>>> <snip>
>>>>> There is another wireless router in the house; call it "router #1"
>>>>> and the new one "router #2". I would like router #2 to connect to
>>>>> the Xbox directly (NAT is fine) and to router #1 through wireless.
>>>>> What is that mode of operation called -- "bridge"? Any pointers on
>>>>> how I enable it?
>>>>
>>>> http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Image:Standard_bridge_large.jpg
>>>
>>> That's a great diagram, and if I knew enough about both IP networking
>>> in general and the WRT54G in particular I could translate it to
>>> Adaptec settings. But I don't, and can't.
>
> Arrgh, _Actiontec_.
>
>>> There are guides on the net for setting up the Adaptec as a bridge
>>> (no DHCP) to be wired to another router, so we don't have to use the
>>> Adaptec's miniscule (1KB) NAT buffer. How would I modify such a
>>> guide for my own nefarious^W purpose?
>
>> There are items called Wireless bridges, or Game bridges that have
>> ethernet and power connections and connect to 802.11 b/g. I actually
>> used one to connect a network printer were it wasn't practical to drop
>> a cable. I connected it to my laptop, set it up, then moved it over
>> the printer, hooked up the cable and was printing to it right after
>> setting up the driver on the PCs.
>
> Surely this router can emulate a less capable device like that. I don't
> (yet) know how to make it do so, however.
>
I have an old Intellinet router that they describe as multifunction,
because it will do regular routing, single bridging, multi-bridging and
wireless extension. I know with the bridging mode on it, you assign it
an two manual IPs, one on the WLAN side, and one on the device side,
both inside the LAN subnet.
VT
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