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AKICOLJ: Wireless bridges

posted by [personal profile] crazyscot at 10:45pm on 01/09/2011 under
Who's making wireless bridges these days? No, bridges, not just access points. I have two LANs and want to bridge them wirelessly. The wireless access point I bought last week is going back to the shop as it turns out to specifically not do client bridge mode; apparently dlink don't think this is a feature that anybody wants. It'll do bridging as an access point, but not as a client.
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alitalf: Skiing in the 3 Valleys, France, 2008 (Default)

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posted by [personal profile] alitalf at 11:52am on 01/09/2011
What is the difference in how it bridges?

I remember logging on to a bridge at a friends house, because it was a stronger signal than the wireless router in the basement, but I did not look into the details of how it worked. I think the box was made by netgear.
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posted by [personal profile] mjg59 at 12:01pm on 01/09/2011
Just to be clear: You have two LANs, one of which has an access point. You want a device you can connect to the other which will associate with that access point and which will result in everything becoming one broadcast domain?
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crazyscot: Selfie, with C, in front of an alpine lake (Default)

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posted by [personal profile] crazyscot at 09:15pm on 01/09/2011
Yes, that's exactly it.

I could make my server - which runs Debian and serves DHCP and other things - into that client-side bridge by adding a wifi dongle, but I was minded to also use it for IP forwarding (single physical/bridged net, multiple subnets) so would rather have it as close to the uplink as possible.
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