WAP with DHCP Pass Through...

I am looking for a good WAP or set of WAPs that i can use as a base and
repeater......

The problem is that the netgear that i have supports DHCP from itself
as a server but i have a windows 2003 server that i want to hand out
the addresses for my wireless clients. It wont pass an address through
the WAP to my wireless clients.

This is very frustrating. I know most of you will say to have a small
scope in the WAP and exlude that from my win2k3 DHCP scope but i would
like everything to be managed via the windows 2003 DHCP server.

I dont want to drop 600 bucks on a cisco 1200 series unit just to
provide wireless access to to my laptop while im at home

Anyone have a good solid solution for a WAP that will do this?

"scale" <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
> I am looking for a good WAP or set of WAPs that i can use as a base and
> repeater......

A linksys wrt54gl running openwrt will do this. I have an older unit
running as a pure ethernet bridge. Works just fine.

-wolfgang
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On 1 Jul 2006 09:22:05 -0700, "scale" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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>I am looking for a good WAP or set of WAPs that i can use as a base and
>repeater......
>
>The problem is that the netgear that i have supports DHCP from itself
>as a server but i have a windows 2003 server that i want to hand out
>the addresses for my wireless clients. It wont pass an address through
>the WAP to my wireless clients.

A wireless access point shouldn't have a DHCP server -- are you actually
thinking of a wireless router? If so, then configure it as an wireless
access point, as described in the How To wiki below. An access point is
a network bridge, and will pass DHCP traffic back and forth.

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On 1 Jul 2006 09:22:05 -0700, "scale" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
: I am looking for a good WAP or set of WAPs that i can use as a base and
: repeater......
:
: The problem is that the netgear that i have supports DHCP from itself
: as a server but i have a windows 2003 server that i want to hand out
: the addresses for my wireless clients. It wont pass an address through
: the WAP to my wireless clients.
:
: This is very frustrating. I know most of you will say to have a small
: scope in the WAP and exlude that from my win2k3 DHCP scope but i would
: like everything to be managed via the windows 2003 DHCP server.
:
: I dont want to drop 600 bucks on a cisco 1200 series unit just to
: provide wireless access to to my laptop while im at home
:
: Anyone have a good solid solution for a WAP that will do this?

I used to do that with a very early WRT54G running in access point mode, and I
do it now with a Netgear WG302. I don't see why any access point wouldn't work
as well.

OTOH, if your access point is actually a router, it might not work if you put
the 2003 server on the router's WAN side. But if you put it on the LAN side,
I'd expect it to work. I guess we need more details about your network
topology.

"scale" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>The problem is that the netgear that i have supports DHCP from itself
>as a server but i have a windows 2003 server that i want to hand out
>the addresses for my wireless clients. It wont pass an address through
>the WAP to my wireless clients.

Linksys WAP54G