I am running two Buffalo WHR-G54S (both DD-WRT v23 SP2) here. The
downstairs one is hooked to the Cable modem, set to AP, and acts as a
DHCP server. The upstairs WHR-G54S is set to Client-Bridge, DHCP forwarder.

Upstairs, I have at least two of three computers running and on the
net at the same time, W98SE (laptop), Warp4 (IBM 9595-OPT), and NT4 (IBM
9585-ONT).

Oddly, NT complains that a DHCP server can't be found, but running
IPCONFIG /all shows the downstairs WHR-G54S doing just that. I can run
Firefox from it without a problem.

I'll play with setting up a 9533 for a low power NAS eventually.

David Arnstein wrote:
> In article <4eg8o2p0sinjla4ortmsabqv9vdt33ci03@4ax.com>,
> Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us> wrote:
>> You might as well use a WRT54G or Buffalo router with DD-WRT in the
>> client mode. That's because a dedicated bridge, game adapter,
>> ethernet bridge, client radio, or whatever it's called this week, is
>> possibly more expensive than the router. For example, the Buffalo
>> WHR-HP-54G router is about $60 while the corresponding ethernet bridge
>> WLI-TX4-G54HP is about the same price:
>> <http://www.buffalotech.com/products/product-detail.php?productid=118&categoryid=29>
>> Might as well get the added features of the router.
>
> Thanks for the response Jeff. I am looking at the Buffalo router, and
> its slower cousin (ancestor?) the WHR-G54. The user manual does not
> mention any bridging or client capability. I don't think this would be
> a problem, because how would the router know that I am using it as a
> bridge? I can think of one problem: the router might not want to assign
> DHCP to clients on its wired interface, which is something that I'd like
> to do. Can you think of any other problems I might have?
>
> Or to put it in a more cheerful point of view, would a dedicated bridge
> like the WLI-TX4-G54HP offer any useful features that a full service
> router would not offer?