Wireless network devices

Not quite home networking, but small office.
Background:
I know my way round wired networking fairly well, but have never used any
wireless equipment yet.
We are looking into getting a network enabled photocopier/printer/scanner
to replace our aging photocopier.
The location this will sit isn't particularly close to any existing network
points and adding one would be disruptive, so I was considering doing this
wirelessly, possibly using wireless for other devices later as well.
Unfortunately the copier doesn't have a wireless option, so as I understand
it the setup would need to be something like:
Copier ---- Wireless-Ethernet Bridge ~~~~ Wireless access point ---- LAN

Questions:
Does the above setup look ok?
Having had a read of downloaded manuals for likely devices, the bridge and
access point each have their own IP. Is this just used for setup, with them
all on the same subnet, or is the wireless side a different subnet from the
wired side with the routing set appropriately? Will each device, including
the copier be able to get their setup from the dhcp server on the LAN?
Is wireless security reasonable these days? I could easily put the access
point into a seperate lan card in one of the linux boxes with locked down
incoming firewall rules to protect the lan, although that might leave it
open for somebody nearby to print their backside on our copier...

John Armstrong <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<1iqn4jsd3zrh7$.(E-Mail Removed)>...
> Not quite home networking, but small office.
> Background:
> I know my way round wired networking fairly well, but have never used any
> wireless equipment yet.
> We are looking into getting a network enabled photocopier/printer/scanner
> to replace our aging photocopier.
> The location this will sit isn't particularly close to any existing network
> points and adding one would be disruptive, so I was considering doing this
> wirelessly, possibly using wireless for other devices later as well.
> Unfortunately the copier doesn't have a wireless option, so as I understand
> it the setup would need to be something like:
> Copier ---- Wireless-Ethernet Bridge ~~~~ Wireless access point ---- LAN
>
> Questions:
> Does the above setup look ok?
> Having had a read of downloaded manuals for likely devices, the bridge and
> access point each have their own IP. Is this just used for setup, with them
> all on the same subnet, or is the wireless side a different subnet from the
> wired side with the routing set appropriately? Will each device, including
> the copier be able to get their setup from the dhcp server on the LAN?
> Is wireless security reasonable these days? I could easily put the access
> point into a seperate lan card in one of the linux boxes with locked down
> incoming firewall rules to protect the lan, although that might leave it
> open for somebody nearby to print their backside on our copier...

If you use a pair of wireless-ethernet bridges, the copier will be in
the same subnet as the rest of the LAN. The IP addresses on the
wireless-bridges are used for set-up/management. Also, by using
bridges you will keep the wireless part of the LAN relatively secure
as the bridges won't accept associations from other clients, they will
only communicate with each other.

Pete