[geeks] Rant: Network "Industry Leaders" That Don't.

[Kris Kirby]

On Wed, 1 May 2002, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> That's my end goal.  The problem is that the current wiring job prohibits
> that, as the router cannot be where the AP is now (no air conditioning),
> the AP cannot be where the router is now (no tower), and the only link
> between the two is one 100baseFX connection.

I fail to see the problem. You reset the AP into Bridge mode so it echos
packets from the wireless side to it's ethernet port and vice versa. Then
the router at the end of the AP's link will (have to) take care of the
rest.

> I "solved" the problem by NATing around the two networks that need
> bidirectional communication.  It's ugly, but it'll work until we pull
> those two extra fibre strands and get things divided up like they ought to
> be.

By my other message, unnecessary.

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