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

[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-05-31, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote:
> 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.

Many OTS WAPs also have a point-to-point bridge mode as well.

Unfortunately all of the WAPs and bridges that I know of are
"non-Gentoo" devices, so they don't meet your stated requiremnt of
having to run Gentoo.  If you really want something that runs Gentoo,
then I don't see any way around building the two bridge units
yourself.

-- 
Grant