Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} "dumb" ethernet mover

[Grant]

>> My cable internet outlet is across the room from my TV, and my Gentoo
>> desktop attaches to my TV.  I'm using a small wireless router to send
>> the signal from the cable modem to my Gentoo system across the room.
>> I don't like using a non-Gentoo decision-making device in my network,
>> but I also don't want to build and maintain another Gentoo system for
>> only firewall/router duties.  Am I overlooking another option?  I want
>> a "dumb" device to move the ethernet connection from one side of the
>> room to the other.
>
> Usually that's called a "cable".  ;)
>
> Many wireless bridges have a "virtual cable" mode point-to-point
> bridging mode that will let you pair them together so that they won't
> talk to anything else and are just transparent layer 2 bridges.  I've
> got some DLink bridges that have a mode like that.  You just set them
> up next to each other and powered them both up while holding a button
> down, and they'd find each other and pair-up.

I hadn't heard of a wireless bridge before.  That sounds about right.
DD-WRT running as a wireless bridge wouldn't be so bad right?

- Grant