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On 2010-06-01, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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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>> Usually that's called a "cable". ?;) |
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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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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. |
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Grant |
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