[MLB-WIRELESS] Bridge vs router vs AP

[Ryan Abbenhuys]

unless you have a Prism based wireless card and you use the Linux Prism2
Host AP driver which in fact uses the built in AP functions in the Prism
chipset in order to function like a normal AP.  You don't need any routing
setup in your box for this.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Holko" <Ben.Holko at GlobalCenter.net.au>
To: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 3:29 PM
Subject: RE: Re[2]: [MLB-WIRELESS] Bridge vs router vs AP


> your linux box would be acting as a router - and forwarding packets as
> defined by the routing table, with IP forwarding
>
> at this layer, it doesnt matter that one of the cards is wireless, the ip
> stack would just see a packet that needs to get forwarded out an
interface -
> just like using two "normal" ethernet cards
>
> Ben
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au
> [mailto:owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au]On Behalf Of Robbie Werner
> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 2:55 PM
> To: melbwireless at wireless.org.au
> Subject: Re: Re[2]: [MLB-WIRELESS] Bridge vs router vs AP
>
>
> So what would be required on a Linux box to route packets from a wireless
> network into a normal wired LAN?
>
> That's what I don't really understand:  Getting the wireless network to
talk
> to the LAN in a relatively transparent manner.
>
> -Rob
>
>
> 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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