<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16643" name=GENERATOR>
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=#ffffff>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sounds like what you're looking to set up is
WDS. Each router will act as access point and bridge. I'm not sure
if it has gotten better over the last year or so but getting it all working with
WPA encryption can be a bit migraine inducing. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>For explanation of WDS check out <A
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Distribution_System">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Distribution_System</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>For setup details on the openwrt check
out <A
href="http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Configuration#head-dea7945a9ea589625b98f7493286f05875db1a56">http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Configuration#head-dea7945a9ea589625b98f7493286f05875db1a56</A></FONT></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE
style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=john.burdell@yahoo.com href="mailto:john.burdell@yahoo.com">John
Burdell</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=ale@ale.org
href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, April 13, 2008 3:29
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [ale] Hardware
recommendation for Proxy</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>I'll probably get a WRT-54GL from newegg.com. I'm
thinking<BR>about getting more than one of these things. Right now, I
have<BR>a Belkin piece of junk wireless router.<BR><BR>Can OpenWRT/DDWRT make
the WRT-54GL act in both<BR>client and AP mode? Suppose I have a WPA
wireless network<BR>at home and I want to temporarily give people WiFi
without<BR>doing anything to my wireless router. Can I set the
WRT-54GL<BR>so that it is a client of my existing network and I put in
the<BR>passphrase, etc. into it and it then broadcasts an open
network?<BR><BR>John<BR><BR><BR><B><I>Brian Pitts
<brian@polibyte.com></I></B> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq
style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid">John
Burdell wrote:<BR>> I just put Fedora on an old box and setup port
forwarding on<BR>> my router to let him login via ssh and then he tunnels
his traffic<BR>> so that everything appears to come from my home
connection.<BR>><BR>> I would like to continue to let my friend use my
home<BR>> connection,<BR>> but was wondering if it was possible to do
this using a Linksys<BR>> WRT-54G? The old box I'm currently letting him
use is old and<BR>> I think uses a fair amount of power and I'd like to
cut down my<BR>> electric bill as much as possible.<BR><BR>What version
of the WRT-54G? If it's version 4 or earlier, you could <BR>install OpenWRT
or DDWRT on it. There is "micro" version of DDWRT that <BR>works on some of
the later revisions, but it doesn't include
ssh.<BR><BR>http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Hardware/Linksys/WRT54G<BR><BR>-Brian<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Ale
mailing
list<BR>Ale@ale.org<BR>http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>
<P>__________________________________________________<BR>Do You
Yahoo!?<BR>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
<BR>http://mail.yahoo.com
<P>
<HR>
<P></P>_______________________________________________<BR>Ale mailing
list<BR>Ale@ale.org<BR>http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>