>>>> 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.
Sorry to be getting even more OT, but why did you choose OpenWRT over DD-WRT? I didn't know there was more than one choice available. - Grant > 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.
