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>>>> My cable internet outlet is across the room from my TV, and my Gentoo |
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>>>> desktop attaches to my TV. ?I'm using a small wireless router to send |
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>>>> the signal from the cable modem to my Gentoo system across the room. |
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>>>> I don't like using a non-Gentoo decision-making device in my network, |
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>>>> but I also don't want to build and maintain another Gentoo system for |
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>>>> only firewall/router duties. ?Am I overlooking another option? ?I want |
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>>>> a "dumb" device to move the ethernet connection from one side of the |
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>>>> room to the other. |
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>>> |
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>>> Usually that's called a "cable". ?;) |
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>>> |
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>>> Many wireless bridges have a "virtual cable" mode point-to-point |
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>>> bridging mode that will let you pair them together so that they won't |
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>>> talk to anything else and are just transparent layer 2 bridges. ?I've |
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>>> got some DLink bridges that have a mode like that. ?You just set them |
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>>> up next to each other and powered them both up while holding a button |
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>>> down, and they'd find each other and pair-up. |
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>> I hadn't heard of a wireless bridge before. That sounds about right. |
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>> DD-WRT running as a wireless bridge wouldn't be so bad right? |
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> I don't have any experience with DD-WRT. I use OpenWrt, but have |
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> only used it in "normal" bridges and WAPs. |
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Sorry to be getting even more OT, but why did you choose OpenWRT over |
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DD-WRT? I didn't know there was more than one choice available. |
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- Grant |
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> By a "normal" bridge, I mean one that's running in infrastructure mode |
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> talking to a WAP using the normal WEP and WAP authentication (the WAP |
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> also happened to be running OpenWrt). |
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> For a simple point-to-point link you may want to try ad-hoc mode |
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> instead of infrastrucure mode. |