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 <
dwchandler@stilyagin.com> 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.
>
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