router opinions wanted

[Lisa Kachold]

Yes, all of the LinkSys, Belkin and Netgears allow you to disable the Wireless 802.1 beacon and just use wired; OpenWRT and other such itsy linux allow taking down the interface.  If you are running your wireless beacon from a card in your bastion router (which is actually a Security ISO built up on an older (or newer if you are rich) system, you certainly can take down your accesspoint.

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> Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 10:05:42 -0700
> From: bishmer at sekaran.net
> To: plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: router opinions wanted
> 
> Robert Holtzman wrote:
> 
> > Is it possible to disable a wireless router's transmitter and use it 
> > with cable? I thought I might like to try it as hard wired but 
> > retain the capability of going wireless later. I've run a lot of 
> > searches on this question and haven't seen anything
> You should be able to do this with even the stock firmware the 
> manufacturer provides. It's usually labelled "Radio Broadcast" or 
> "Enable Wireless"
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