Lynksys Wireless router as a plain Access Point ?????

[ThePimPsTeR]

has anyone successfully configured a Lynksys Wireless router as a plain Access Point (ie. with no firewall or DHCP etc configured) ??

I have a Linksys befw11s4_v4 (802.11b).
I want to connect it to an IPCOP firewall I have built. DHCP enabled on IPCOP interface - all works OK via wires.

Turn off all fw/dhcp on linksys router, connect WAN port to IPCOP interface & it gets DHCP assigned, BUT any device connectted to Linksys router will not connect out (wires or wireless)
To my mind this should be acting as a 'dumb' access point getting DHCP from it's connected source (the IPCOP box), but it appears not.

any ideas / experience ??????

thansk PimPy

[ThePimPsTeR]

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[keithJenkins]

I'm not sure about Linksys, but Belkin routers you can use as access points.

Hope that's of help

[mark19632]

Hi,

I use a linksys router as an access point. I have a belkin ADSL router connected to the net and this connects to the linksys just in the normal ethernet ports NOT the WAN point.

I have no idea about IPCOP, but hopefully this might work for you.

[Howard]

Just turn off DHCP and don't use the WAN port and bam you've got an access point

[ThePimPsTeR]

thanks all - have also heard this from another webpage I found, although it was Linux-biased, should be OK.

I've been trying to use the WAN port - will try this.....