[olug] ot, wireless info please

[Scott Evans]

Well, A wireless access point does not route packets
like a router would. It just gives your wireless
laptop/Pc a way to connect to the wired backbone of
your network. For example, you would use a wireless
access point to connect to a already installed wired
router or switch. 

A bridge pretty much lets two different standards
communicate together.  A wirless bridge in this case
would take the wireless packets and take the wireless
802.11 headers from the packet and encapsulate the
packet with ethernet headers so it can communicate
with the wired switch/router/network. 

Also, switchs are sometimes called Transparent bridges
in many network/cisco books. 

This is my understanding, I could be wrong. If I am
someone please correct me :) 

-Scott-




> On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 22:46:34 +0100, Charles Bird
> <thebirdman at operamail.com> wrote:
> > ok, I'm finally getting into wireless now. I want
> to know what the differnce between access point and
> router and what exactly a bridge does as well, do I
> need two bridges for a connection?
> >   I'm build my cantenna this week.
> > thanks for the help.
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