Text 58086, 47 rader
Skriven 2009-11-09 03:16:07 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.0)
  Kommentar till text 58076 av August Abolins (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Videotron's  trio.
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 AA>> Old routers can still be coaxed into becoming dumb
 ml> switches.

 ml> yup! it is as easy as putting tape over the WAN port and
 ml> plugging into one of the LAN ports... granted, this means
 ml> loosing one of the LAN ports for another workstation but you
 ml> gain the connection to the internet and if you need more
 ml> ports, you can easily plug another switch into another of the
 ml> LAN ports ;)

 AA> I was wondering about the WAN port.  Some texts seem to indicate
 AA> that it was ok use the WAN port.  But that was confusing to me.
 AA> Then I learned that some routers have an "uplink" port that is
 AA> designed for this purpose.  

the uplink port and the WAN port as the same for most general purposes...

 AA> Using the uplink port precludes the need to use a crossover 
 AA> cable.  Using a regular lan port would require a crossover 
 AA> connection between the main router and dumbed-router.  Right?

this depends on the equipment in use, really... some have MDI ports which
determine the cable wiring in use... others require a normal or crossover
cable... generally speaking, NIC to NIC requires a crossover cable... most
others are self determining...

 ml> FWIW: this is how you press a wireless router into wireless
 ml> access point usage :)

 AA> That would be interesting to see operate.  Two SSID's to choose
 AA> from. 

no, not really... if you bypass the WAN port on a WRT (wireless router) and use
it as a WAP (wireless access point), then it is still transmitting the same
SSID if configured to do so... the main point of this is that the router
functions are bypassed and negated... in other words, the wireless router
becomes nothing more than a wireless switch and none of the router stuffs are
needed since there's no NAT needed nor is the builtin firewall cr4p necessary,
either...

blame marketing droids for trying to make everyone believe that all switches
must be routers... they don't need to be and never really have needed to be
with proper network administration ;)

)\/(ark

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