Wireless bridge?

[stevieg]

Hello everybody,

I would appreciate all your help in regards to the following matter.

I have a internet connection. I need to go wireless.

I have 3COM switch connected to the ISP via fibre optic. I connect my laptop using the LAN port (mac address of the LAN CARD : 00-00-39-BC-6D-EE) to the switch. I can connect to any port on the switch. The IP address I get from the ISP is a private IP address 10.67.120.125. This IP address has been reserved for my laptop. If any other laptop tries to connect to the Internet it will not release an IP address.

Is it possible that if I connect 2 WET54G Wireless bridges, one to the switch and the other one to the laptop, that I can get an IP address from the ISP without the wireless bridges being visible to the ISP. I tried using a WRT54G Wireless router, but it does not work.

 

[ktwebb]

Shouldn't be a problem. Make sure the bridges are not setup to grab an IP, in other words, set an IP statically or just disable dhcp if it's enabled. Only thing an IP is used for anyway is configuration. Bridges are just transparent transports in the wireless world. Simply pass what packets are sent to them.

 

[stevieg]

Thanks for replying back ktwebb.

I tried it, but it does not work. Can you please guide me on how to configure point to point bridge on a linksys wet54g product. And also what kind of cable should I use, a straight through or a cross cable?

 

[JackMDS]

Your Laptop MAC address is probably the password (authentication) agent.

Any other device connected to the Modem would not work unless it has the same MAC.

While the WET54G is IP wise, transparent it probably projects another MAC number.

Using Wireless Cable/DSL Router through the WAN usually solves the issue.

If you configured correctly the WRT54G and it did not work you probably need to convince the ISP to cooperate with you and provide you with a solution.

It does not make sense that an ISP would provide broadband and would restrict it to Wire only.

:sun:

 

[Brazen]

Originally posted by: stevieg
Hello everybody,

I would appreciate all your help in regards to the following matter.

I have a internet connection. I need to go wireless.

I have 3COM switch connected to the ISP via fibre optic. I connect my laptop using the LAN port (mac address of the LAN CARD : 00-00-39-BC-6D-EE) to the switch. I can connect to any port on the switch. The IP address I get from the ISP is a private IP address 10.67.120.125. This IP address has been reserved for my laptop. If any other laptop tries to connect to the Internet it will not release an IP address.

Is it possible that if I connect 2 WET54G Wireless bridges, one to the switch and the other one to the laptop, that I can get an IP address from the ISP without the wireless bridges being visible to the ISP. I tried using a WRT54G Wireless router, but it does not work.

Put the WRT54G back in. All you have to do is clone your laptops MAC on the WRT54G (there is an option for that on the administration web interface).

 

[fuzzynavel]

just get a router that can spoof/copy your MAC address and you will be able to connect all your stuff through the router fine...