On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 00:49:29 GMT John Navas <spamfilter0@navasgroup.com> wrote:

| A possible way to avoid that hassle is to substitute a suitable box with
| third-party firmware for WGT624(1), and hack that firmware to block DHCP
| traffic from being sent over the wireless bridge. That way both WLANs
| could use DHCP without risk of connecting to the wrong DHCP server over
| the wireless bridge.

I won't have much need of DHCP. It would be nice for visiting laptops.
My bootable CDROMs do pause for 10 seconds to wait for a DHCP response,
but if none, they make an IP from the low order bits of the MAC.

And it seems this version of WGT624 has the ability to block DHCP:

http://phil.ipal.org/usenet/aiw/2006...lockdhcp-1.png
http://phil.ipal.org/usenet/aiw/2006...lockdhcp-2.png
http://phil.ipal.org/usenet/aiw/2006...lockdhcp-3.png
http://phil.ipal.org/usenet/aiw/2006...lockdhcp-4.png

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