On 22 Jul 2006 03:34:35 GMT, phil-news-nospam@ipal.net wrote in
<e9s6cb02cbd@news2.newsguy.com>:

>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

That looks like filtering from the WAN to the LAN, not between wireless
LAN and wired LAN. For that kind of LAN isolation in a low-end product
I think you're going to need non-standard firmware.

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