wired and wireless network setup interactions

[Barney Wolff]

On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 09:24:47PM -0500, Dave wrote:
>    I have a setup that was a 10 megabit hub holding together a freebsd6 
> firewall/router/webserver/other box. Updated that to a 10/100 megabitt 
> Belkin g+ router for wireless. The problem now that i'm having is both the 
> server and this new router do the following:
> firewall
> dhcp
> dns
> nat
> and they both utilize separate subnets. I'd like for the Belkin router to 
> handle wireless traffic, while the original fbsd router handles wired as 
> well as it's original functions of firewall, nat, dns, and dhcp.
>    If anyone has any experience with this or recommendations i'd appreciate 
> it. My thought was turn off the dhcp server on the belkin router and let 
> the original fbsd server's dhcp server handle it, but i'm not sure if doing 
> so will disable it's ability to accept wireless clients. I'd also like the 
> wireless network to be secure.

Use the Belkin as a bridge rather than a router, by simply not using
its WAN port, and do turn off its dhcp server.  I do the same with a
Netgear.

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