Wireless *switch*?

[Cole Tuininga]

On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 09:38, Mark Komarinski wrote:
> If I read this right, you're looking for an access point?

An access point that allows the connecting machines to become part of an
existing class C...

More details:

I have an internal network at home of 192.168.101.0/24.  What I'd like
is to set aside a certain subset of these IPs to be used for wireless
devices.  That way, when a wireless device connects in, they become part
of the already existing class C.

I don't have a lot of experience with wireless access points, but I'd
gotten the impression that most (if not all?) of them act as a router. 
For instance, the one I have right now gets a single IP on the existing
network (specifically, 192.168.101.100) and then all devices that
wirelessly connect are NAT'd behind it on their own class C
(specifically, 192.168.0.0/24).  

Am I making sense?

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