On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 17:44:11 -0600, Callum Lerwick <seg at haxxed.com> wrote: > > well yes, albeit 4 port switches. I was thinking I could go 4 floors > > at a time hooked into one AP but that would still leave 6 NAT gateways > > (better than 35 for sure) > > Actually, 5 ports, if you change some nvram settings you can set up the > WAN to operate as an additional LAN port... > Well that would be something. How would I go about changing the nvram if not through the provided web interface? > > Plus the Pre-N APs don't appear to have bridging capability. > > I'm confused, are you using AP's, or are you using routers? AP's should > be bridging by definition. I don't see any Pre-N AP's listed on Belkin's > site... yeah, uh....I am mixing up my terminology. I meant routers. > > I know the stock 7230 firmware supports an AP mode. Have you made sure > you have the latest firmware? Apparently the earlier Pre-N firmware was > missing a lot of stuff that was later added. I did not see any updated firmware on Belkin's site > > If they're routers, even without an AP mode, they should be bridging > between the wireless and the LAN anyway. Just leave the WAN link > hanging, hook them all together through a LAN port, give them all fixed > LAN IP's, and disable DHCP serving. Then put a PC on the LAN network, > serving up a 10.x.0.0/16 network via DHCP and providing the WAN > connection. roit....well I would do this actually, but (at least through the web interface) they will only allow a /24 (as the first 3 octets are provided for you based on the IP of the LAN address) > > ... That should theoretically work. The key is being able to disable > DHCP serving so the PC can serve up a /16 network. And the routers > probably need to have STP enabled, which I think the 7230's do... Well, the only problem is that I would not be able to block SMB ports from others on the same network without doing it at router itself.....and since the router will only take responsibility for the /24 it is on, I cannot reliably do that with this method. -- Loren H. Burlingame <loren at lhb.name> GPG Key ID: 0x112DCF4F "Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes." -William Shatner (a.k.a. Buck Murdock)