Re: can an access point connect through an access point?

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On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 02:54 -0500, Claude Jones wrote:
> Is it possible to have two access points on a network? I'm trying to use a 
> D-Link G700AP as a substitute for a WIFI card. Maybe it can't be done and I'm 
> wasting my time. 
> 
> Topology is: Wireless broadband comes into my house through radio; radio has a 
> LAN port which connects to my WAN nic; my LAN nic is connected to a D-Link 
> G700AP - various PC's throughout my house connect via WIFI to this AP, and 
> all works well. 
> 
> For reasons not worth going into in great detail, I'm trying to replace one 
> connection from a remote PC, which is using a Microsoft wireless USB device 
> that is useless in a Linux environment; I have this second D-Link G700AP, and 
> I was hoping it could be used in place of the Microsoft device. 
> 
> I've set the SSID on the secondary AP to the same value as the one on my 
> primary access point. 
> I've assigned it a unique address in the same subnet as the first AP. 
> I've set my primary AP address as the gateway for the secondary one. 
> 
> >From my machine connected to the secondary AP by cat5 cable, I can ping that 
> AP, so the connection there is fine. But, I can't ping the primary AP. 
> Channels are the same, encryption is turned off on both. Am I engaged in a 
> fallacy of composition, or can this be done?
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an AP would have to have a wired connection to the LAN.

If the second AP has a 'bridging mode' which would allow it to bridge
via wireless to the first AP, that is what you apparently need.

Craig


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