APs, Routers, Bridges...

What is the difference betwen an AP working as an AP and an AP working as a
bridge? And as a router?

Do you need different kinds of APs for every purpose?

Thanks,



Jose Angel

On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 14:01:05 +0200, Josechu spoketh

>What is the difference betwen an AP working as an AP and an AP working as a
>bridge? And as a router?
>
>Do you need different kinds of APs for every purpose?
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>Jose Angel
>

A regular AP allows other wireless "clients" to access the wired and
wireless network. This includes wireless network cards for computers as
well as wireless bridges and game adapters.

An AP working as a bridge connects (only) with other APs. The Linksys
WAP54G in bridge mode will _only_ talk to other APs, and they have to be
specified by MAC address.

A wireless router is a regular broadband router with the addition of a
wireless AP.



Lars M. Hansen
http://www.hansenonline.net
(replace 'badnews' with 'news' in e-mail address)

Thank you Lars.


Josechu

Hello Lars,

After a few days I still have some doubts:

If you have an AP and 10 repeaters in a line, do all the repeaters have to
have as IP gateway the IP of the first AP?



On the other hand, if you have two wireless networks with one AP each, and
one Bridge to join them.

The bridge connects to the AP with their mac addresses, but does it have to
have two gateway IP? the IP of both APs? In this case, could the two
networks have diferent masks? that is, could an AP be in 10.0.0.1 /
255.0.0.0 and the other in 192.168.1.1 / 255.255.255.0 ?


Thanks in advance






----- Original Message -----
From: "Lars M. Hansen" <(E-Mail Removed)>
Newsgroups: alt.internet.wireless
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: APs, Routers, Bridges...


> On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 14:01:05 +0200, Josechu spoketh
>
> >What is the difference betwen an AP working as an AP and an AP working as
a
> >bridge? And as a router?
> >
> >Do you need different kinds of APs for every purpose?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >
> >Jose Angel
> >
>
> A regular AP allows other wireless "clients" to access the wired and
> wireless network. This includes wireless network cards for computers as
> well as wireless bridges and game adapters.
>
> An AP working as a bridge connects (only) with other APs. The Linksys
> WAP54G in bridge mode will _only_ talk to other APs, and they have to be
> specified by MAC address.
>
> A wireless router is a regular broadband router with the addition of a
> wireless AP.
>
>
>
> Lars M. Hansen
> http://www.hansenonline.net
> (replace 'badnews' with 'news' in e-mail address)