>> 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.
I hadn't heard of a wireless bridge before. That sounds about right. DD-WRT running as a wireless bridge wouldn't be so bad right? - Grant
