[TriLUG] open ports on Uverse 2wire gateway -- revisited

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Tue, 4 Feb 2014, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:

> An example of bridging that may be more relevant: You have a wap (wifi box), 
> and you only use the lan ethernet ports. You connect one lan port to the 
> user's network (say 10.0.1.0/24). The wap has the IP 192.168.1.1 and is 
> listening on port 80 for configuration input. You come along with your laptop 
> on 192.168.1.254, plug into another of the wap's lan ports and configure the 
> SSID of the wap. You unplug the laptop and associate with the SSID. You get 
> an IP in 10.0.1.0/24. The IP 192.168.1.1 is still on the wap, but you can no 
> longer easily get to it, unless you know it's there.

how this is bridging; the wap comes out wifi, but it looks like a piece of 
ethernet to the laptop. There are no IPs or routing between the laptop and the 
dhcpd on the wired network.

Joe

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