Claude Jones wrote:
I'm afraid there's still a lack of clarity, here. The router is my FC4 box.
The external NIC of my FC4 box is connected to my internet connection. The
internal NIC is connected to my D-Link AP. Off in other parts of the house
are several machines, connecting to that AP via their wireless NIC devices.
Now, one of those distant machines is an old Win98 box, which is using a USB
wireless NIC made by Microsoft, to connect to the AP hanging off the inside
NIC of my Fedora box.
That Microsoft USB wireless NIC is what we're trying to replace. I was trying
to hook up/configure another D-Link AP to act as a wireless NIC from that
Win98 computer, and I'm pretty sure now that it won't work, though I'm still
not completely clear what you're doing with your two D-Link routers - BUT,
neither of my D-Link devices are routers, they are just AP's - My router is
the Fedora computer. Machines throughout the house communicate with the AP on
my Fedora Box, and Fedora is configured to provide DHCP to those machines,
and to route traffic from them through the Fedora box to its external NIC
which is connected to the internet...
ASCII art!
External Bridge -> Other Wireless ->
+----+ +-------+ / +-----+
(I'net) ---+ PC +--------+ Dlink + -( -> Wireless -> )--+ W95 +
+----+ +-------+ \ +-----+
Internal AP ->
<- Router ->
Sorry I can't help you with the D-Links, I'm not familiar with
them. It did sound like the Point-Multipoint bridging may be of
interest with the second D-Link setup as a point-point bridge
(not pictured).
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