Re: what would you do? 2 LANS connected via Wireless, 1 a transmitter of Internet

[darm0k]

At 02:30 PM -0700 05/02/2004, V is for Virkkala wrote:

[snip confusing description :) ]
I think you're saying you have:
DSL modem
 ^-> Windoze PC, acting as a router
       ^-> LAN1 -> computers
       ^-> LAN2 -> computers
Where the three ^-> represent *separate* ethernet interfaces on the 
Windoze machine.  IOW, they are *not* hubs or switches.

I'd like simply to plug something into my uplink port on my existing
Ethernet hub in LAN 2. Is that possible?
Somewhere on the LAN, plug in a WAP (Wireless Access Point).  This 
will work fine.  But without better detail of the underlying LAN 
configuration, it's hard to tell when you need just a bridging access 
point (that simply extends the LAN as-is thru the air) or a full 
router (with NAT, DHCP, etc, capability; that creates a new 
subnetwork of wirelessly connected computers).

In LAN 1, the ISP's technical incompetence may force us to continue
to use a PC as a server - though I could switch it to a Linux box,
for easier remote control from my office in LAN 2.
The "PC as a router" issue is not the ISP's purview.  Their job ends 
at that DSL modem.  It's up to you (generic; your company) to 
properly configure the router (whatever type of router used).

- Dan.
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