The meaning of the word 'bridge' is too buggy or confusing. Usually
wirelless bridges works in pairs, linking two wired segments through a
wirelless conection.
One bridge in a wired size works as "Master" while the second one
works as Slave". For example, an xbox connected to the slave side
will send any ethernet packet and if the destination mac address is
on the other wired side the two bridges will transparently comunicate.
The XBox will think the answer is from the local ethernet. That's all
about it. You don't need to setup an IP address for the two bridge but
is better to do so (one IP for each bridge) so you can
access them through a telnet/web client. Otherwise you will need to
access them through a serial wire close the apparatus if you want to
setup some brigde parameter (SSID, speed, antena power, ...).
Chris Fowler <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed)>.. .
> I've seen consuner grade wireless bridges that are marketed to
> conver 1 ethernet device like an Xbox to wireless. I would
> like to actually convert a segment. The segment would be
> 100BaseT and I want to be able to access it over the wireless
> segment. I understand that this is a bridge and not a router so
> I would like for the IP's on the 100BaseT segment to match those
> on the wireless one. If a machine like an Xbox requests an IP address
> then the Linksys AP will provide on via the bridge. How
> would a typical bridge be configured. Does it have an IP itself I can
> connect to via a web interface?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
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