Re: Wireless Access Point Recommendations

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From: JF Mezei
Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 16:17

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Devon Ferns wrote:
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> Wireless routers can either work as a gateway(AP) or a normal router.

In a "gateway" mode, does it act as a bridge ? or just a hub ?

A true router would be problematic since you would need to setup proper
routing tables and make your wireless LAN a separate subnet from your wired
lan in order for everyone to know where to send their ethernet packets.

But in a bridge mode (which, when you think about it, is more like a switch),
the machine acts only at the ethernet level and doesn't "route" traffic. It
just learns which ethernet adresses are located on which side of itself and
knows whether it needs to transmit a packet over to the wireless side or not
and vice versa.

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