[MLB-WIRELESS] Bridge vs router vs AP

[evilbunny]

Hello Robbie,

they do talk in a transparent manner, the AP 99% of the time doesn't
act as a router... it merely forwards the packets blindly...

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Thursday, May 30, 2002, 2:55:28 PM, you wrote:

RW> So what would be required on a Linux box to route packets from a wireless
RW> network into a normal wired LAN?

RW> That's what I don't really understand:  Getting the wireless network to talk
RW> to the LAN in a relatively transparent manner.

RW> -Rob


RW> on 30/5/02 2:26 PM, evilbunny at evilbunny at sydneywireless.com wrote:

>> Hello Andrew,
>> 
>> An AP is in fact a bridge, which for all intents and purposes is a hub,
>> however non IP traffic is filtered by it...
>> 
>> eg, wireless frame headers aren't sent onto the ethernet segment
>> and vice versa, bridges have commonly been used in the past to keep
>> macintosh and PC networks apart, ie appletalk and MS filesharing
>> aren't sent to both parts of the network so as to keep the clutter on
>> a network segment to a minimum... 


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