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Re: [LUG] Wireless LAN (OT?)

 

On Sat, 05 Nov 2005 19:56:20 +0000
Robin Cornelius wrote:

> Jumping a bit late in the conversation here and you are probably sorted
> now but my wireless at home is just like this. My wireless AP is actualy
> a router (but with a WAN interface not an adsl interface). I ignore the
> WAN and just use the wireless part and the 4 ethernet ports as a hub.
> Other routers will behave the same. I have a netgear wireless router at
> work and it will function without the adsl connected, the only caveat is
> that if it is acting as a DHCP server and it is not the gateway router
> it will (probably) not be able to tell the dhcp clients about the DNS
> servers. Basicly the router that is the gateway probably should be the
> DHCP server as well (unless you have a dedicated dhcp server etc...)
> 
> Robin

Hi Robin,

When you say "WAN interface", is this a multi-purpose interface that will detect (or 
is configurable for) multiple serial encoding types, or is this an Ethernet port 
that has been labelled as "WAN"?

Grant.

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