Re: Creating a Belkin Wireless Bridge - Help!

rspike@xxxxxxxxxxx hath wroth:

This makes absolutely no sense given the fact that Belkin claims it
*will* work. You would think they would know their own products.

They're wrong. Access points do not talk to access points without
using WDS.

Further on this - - - I was able to locate this information on the
Wireless Bridge Page and apparently the Router *does* support WDS:

Yep. That's what the data sheet says.

I've done all this - - - But, I am not able to sucessfully Ping the
Access Point unless it's connected to the Router with an ethernet
cable. As soon as I disconnect the cable, it loses connectivity.
Seems to me like there's a simple tweak that I am missing.

Did you look at the sample Linksys WRT54G configuration link I posted?
It's not the same for your Belkin, but the general idea is the same.
The usual goof is to configure the wrong MAC address. The wireless
MAC address for a router can be different from the ethernet and WAN
MAC addresses. Dive into the configuration and check your numbers. If
you need additional help, you'll need to post some numbers as to how
you have it configured.

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