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? ---- 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
