On 2010-06-01, 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. > > 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?
I don't have any experience with DD-WRT. I use OpenWrt, but have only used it in "normal" bridges and WAPs. By a "normal" bridge, I mean one that's running in infrastructure mode talking to a WAP using the normal WEP and WAP authentication (the WAP also happened to be running OpenWrt). For a simple point-to-point link you may want to try ad-hoc mode instead of infrastrucure mode. -- Grant
