Various modes on an Access Point

Forgive my newbieness when it comes to wireless networking. I recently
bought myself an wireless access point as a cop out as not to delve
into the murky world of wireless nic's and linux. I just plugged my
trusty rlt8139 into the 100 base T port on the the back of the AP and
hey presto I can connect to my wireless router three floors down with
my Linux server. So far so good.

Having fiddled around with the settings in my Pheenet WAP-554G (the
documentation it is supplied with is very scant to say the least) it
has several modes of operation :

AP
Station Ad-hoc
Station Infrastructure (the mode I am currently running)
AP Bridge - Point to Point
AP Bridge - Point to Multipoint
AP Bridge - WDS
Unversal repeater

I think I know what the unversal repeater does but can someone explain
the other modes? My other question is can I force the access point to
pass all traffic from the wireless side to the wired side only because
the devil in me can be a little nosey at times ;o)

Azazel

On 29 Nov 2006 15:07:11 -0800, "Azazel" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote in <(E-Mail Removed) .com>:

>Forgive my newbieness when it comes to wireless networking. I recently
>bought myself an wireless access point as a cop out as not to delve
>into the murky world of wireless nic's and linux. I just plugged my
>trusty rlt8139 into the 100 base T port on the the back of the AP and
>hey presto I can connect to my wireless router three floors down with
>my Linux server. So far so good.

Then it's a wireless client (Ethernet) bridge, not an access point.

>Having fiddled around with the settings in my Pheenet WAP-554G (the
>documentation it is supplied with is very scant to say the least) it
>has several modes of operation :
>
>AP

Access Point. Host in an infrastructure network.

>Station Ad-hoc

Ad hoc network. All stations talk to all stations.

>Station Infrastructure (the mode I am currently running)

Actually wireless client (Ethernet) bridge.

>AP Bridge - Point to Point
>AP Bridge - Point to Multipoint
>AP Bridge - WDS
>Unversal repeater
>
>I think I know what the unversal repeater does but can someone explain
>the other modes? My other question is can I force the access point to
>pass all traffic from the wireless side to the wired side only because
>the devil in me can be a little nosey at times ;o)

See wikis below and Wikipedia for info on these other modes.

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