Can 2 access points acts as a layer 2 bridge

hiyas,

I am looking of using 2 access points between 2 ethernet switches.
will be used for networking few pc over a large building.
i wish to have transparent layer 2 over the access links and switches

can the 2 access points act as a simple repeater and bridge across 2
ethernet segments, with no set up required or any overheads, other
than some WEP encryption, and no need to set IP address or net masks.

like to hear any comments, thanks in advanced

On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 17:47:53 +1000, north_melb_man wrote:

> hiyas,
>
> I am looking of using 2 access points between 2 ethernet switches.
> will be used for networking few pc over a large building.
> i wish to have transparent layer 2 over the access links and switches
>
> can the 2 access points act as a simple repeater and bridge across 2
> ethernet segments, with no set up required or any overheads, other
> than some WEP encryption, and no need to set IP address or net masks.
>
> like to hear any comments, thanks in advanced

They sure can. In this case, actually, you can get pretty stupid
equipment and come out okay. I have a Maxtech WL450 (an old 2Mb only AP)
that functions only as an ethernet bridge. In fact, there's no way to
assign it an IP. A lot of commercial equipment does ethernet bridging,
but then other just do "bridging", but it's actually transparent routing.

One place to check out is YDI (www.ydi.com), there stuff seems to do a
decent job in straight ethernet bridging.

Wes