On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 20:08:51 -0500, "Jack \(MVP-Networking\)."
<Jack@discussiongroup.com> wrote in
<uHbcluRCHHA.1300@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl>:

>Hi
>Hmm... While Access Points do not Do NAT.
>Most Access Points (AP) do have DHCP server (including the one discussed
>here the WG602).

Not true -- the WG602, like other APs, has a DHCP _client_, not a DHCP
_server_. The DHCP client is used to set the IP address of the web
management interface for some other device acting as a DHCP server.

>In a peer to peer Network with No Internet connection there is No need for a
>Router, and thus No credible DHCP, so the AP has one to assign an IP to the
>Wireless client.

Again, not true -- the AP is just a bridge, and so has no role in IP
assignment, like any other network bridge. IP assignment is typically
done by a DHCP server on the network or manually.

>Jack (MVP-Networking).

Perhaps you should drop the credential claim.

>"John Navas" <spamfilter0@navasgroup.com> wrote in message
>news:lp9nl21mskibuv8ksf2vs235l0gpbp11kf@4ax.com.. .
>> On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 23:15:08 -0000, "Boris" <boris@gtemail.net> wrote in
>> <4s1lbtFtmpn0U1@mid.individual.net>:
>>
>>>David Hettel wrote:
>>>> If your WG602 had a DHCP server, and the NAT that goes with that it
>>>> would appear to your ISP as one device taking up one IP address. As
>>>> it is now your network appears to your ISP as three devices, the
>>>> WG602 taking one IP address and your two laptops each with a
>>>> different IP address. Your ISP is providing you with three real,
>>>
>>>Is the access point itself really using another IP address? I wonder as I
>>>should see then its IP address when I trace the gateway's IP address?
>>
>> No, since the access point is just a bridge, not a router. The IP
>> assigned to the AP is used only for the web management interface.

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