wap mac address issue

Article:		WAP11 to WET11: Easy, Cheap Wireless Bridging
Subject:		wap mac address issue
Date:		2005-04-06 12:06:14
From:		vw151

I set something like this up a few weeks ago. I needed a good way to connect my 5 wired computers to my neighbors wireless internet connection. I purchased an me101 (netgear equivalent to wet11). I found that I could connect to my neighbors router in 2 ways. Either I could connect the me101 to one of my switched ethernet LAN ports and let all of my wired computers pull an IP from the DHCP serving on my neighbors router (basically as this article describes) and become part of their lan. This is not much of an issue for me because I only have 5 computers. The person writing this article did mention that some APs have a limited # of MACs it will allow to connect to it and this is where the second solution comes in. I connected the me101 to my WAN port on my wired router, and assigned a static IP that connects to my neighbors router. That way I only have one MAC and IP in their router and am using NAT to provide internal IPs seperate from their lan for my 5 computers. Anyway the point is if you don't need to be on the LAN of the network you are connecting to and you want to limit the number of IPs you show in their router, use a cheap wired router to seperate your network with your wireless bridge serving the purpose of a cable modem or something like that

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