Yep, the Buffalo also passes DHCP and everything else that I cared about. >From the perspective of the systems attached to its ethernet ports it is totally invisible. On 9/25/06, Darrin Chandler wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 10:40:51PM -0700, Dazed_75 wrote: > > There is a kind of wireless bridge which is useful for connecting > clusters > > of machines wirelessly. Buffalo calls it an ethernet > converter. Basicly, > > the box has 4 ethernet ports and acts as a shared wireless client to an > AP > > somewhere else on the network. If that AP is in your router, then all > > machines can be happily part of the same network. The machines > connected to > > the 4 ethernet ports only think they have a wired connection. BTW I > have > > tried this out but for someone else so I cannot speak to any bottlenecks > or > > other speed issues. > > I have a similar LinkSys product, which they call a wireless bridge > (WET54G). Note that it actually *IS* a bridge, so it passes DHCP and > everything else. That makes for simple setup. I have had sporadic > trouble with it losing the access point for minutes at a time for no > apparent reason. > > I'm also using an older LinkSys WRT54G w/ sveasoft in client mode, which > acts much like the Buffalo described above. It never loses the AP. > > -- > Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD Users Group > dwchandler@stilyagin.com | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ > http://www.stilyagin.com/ | > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. - Dr. Seuss