From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OJH58-0003kz-9J for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 Jun 2010 02:19:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 411EEE0996; Tue, 1 Jun 2010 02:19:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f222.google.com (mail-ew0-f222.google.com [209.85.219.222]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01385E0996 for ; Tue, 1 Jun 2010 02:19:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy22 with SMTP id 22so1217251ewy.29 for ; Mon, 31 May 2010 19:19:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=AxuzIul1nRbrL3CDd7SLFRBFW2xfiaTsJjAQDTp1CSg=; b=qwW1GAPIc5g2e9ckiBQ3bdU4JGCtzigKfGNYZWO2lDMEiyvbjQb0KsYpi5xSPhpk9Z dxDQ2X6wuAWnLCQm+/t29RYifZEwoBLXgxEmmfbxbQQ2C2PFQKmFdxTeGvQYSiXOhvBc PUL45fvHAm2vT1M4aB844FcHx/99+zv6D/1Tk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=E4Uaxa0lhEtQjf1ZC6pgjal50AUbmOj8Wk2oCERdV2bcijXV78pEg5DP61O/7RJ2qf mApeS/Z+HDZ39INqnG67uMoL+/dfb1rGOaPxp9WKIj7+hIH85xUC1kqjpdsSb6P25skj 9QsiyBeeHbE71IZ+8sVUKOaH74rpYhFxNVRJo= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.35.193 with SMTP id q1mr2811066ebd.38.1275358765333; Mon, 31 May 2010 19:19:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.213.20.18 with HTTP; Mon, 31 May 2010 19:19:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 19:19:25 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} "dumb" ethernet mover From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: f93b006a-7150-41c9-8518-965ef8625dac X-Archives-Hash: 23ce36fe88011808130eb0e6e92c7d02 >>>> My cable internet outlet is across the room from my TV, and my Gentoo >>>> desktop attaches to my TV. ?I'm using a small wireless router to send >>>> the signal from the cable modem to my Gentoo system across the room. >>>> I don't like using a non-Gentoo decision-making device in my network, >>>> but I also don't want to build and maintain another Gentoo system for >>>> only firewall/router duties. ?Am I overlooking another option? ?I want >>>> a "dumb" device to move the ethernet connection from one side of the >>>> room to the other. >>> >>> Usually that's called a "cable". ?;) >>> >>> Many wireless bridges have a "virtual cable" mode point-to-point >>> bridging mode that will let you pair them together so that they won't >>> talk to anything else and are just transparent layer 2 bridges. ?I've >>> got some DLink bridges that have a mode like that. ?You just set them >>> up next to each other and powered them both up while holding a button >>> down, and they'd find each other and pair-up. >> >> I hadn't heard of a wireless bridge before. =A0That sounds about right. >> DD-WRT running as a wireless bridge wouldn't be so bad right? > > I don't have any experience with DD-WRT. =A0I use OpenWrt, but have > only used it in "normal" bridges and WAPs. Sorry to be getting even more OT, but why did you choose OpenWRT over DD-WRT? I didn't know there was more than one choice available. - Grant > By a "normal" bridge, I mean one that's running in infrastructure mode > talking to a WAP using the normal WEP and WAP authentication (the WAP > also happened to be running OpenWrt). > > For a simple point-to-point link you may want to try ad-hoc mode > instead of infrastrucure mode.