On 2010-05-31, Grant <emailgr...@gmail.com> wrote: > My cable internet outlet is across the room from my TV, and my Gentoo > desktop attaches to my TV. I'm using a small wireless router to send > the signal from the cable modem to my Gentoo system across the room. > I don't like using a non-Gentoo decision-making device in my network, > but I also don't want to build and maintain another Gentoo system for > only firewall/router duties. Am I overlooking another option? I want > a "dumb" device to move the ethernet connection from one side of the > room to the other.
Usually that's called a "cable". ;) Many wireless bridges have a "virtual cable" mode point-to-point bridging mode that will let you pair them together so that they won't talk to anything else and are just transparent layer 2 bridges. I've got some DLink bridges that have a mode like that. You just set them up next to each other and powered them both up while holding a button down, and they'd find each other and pair-up. Many OTS WAPs also have a point-to-point bridge mode as well. Unfortunately all of the WAPs and bridges that I know of are "non-Gentoo" devices, so they don't meet your stated requiremnt of having to run Gentoo. If you really want something that runs Gentoo, then I don't see any way around building the two bridge units yourself. -- Grant
