Re: uplink newbie question

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From: Jack (www.ezlan.net)
Date: 11/12/04


Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:29:27 -0500

Hi
If you want to use the Linksys as a Gatway Access Point configure it to work
as an Access Point.
Instructions here: http://www.ezlan.net/router_AP.html
Jack (MVP-Networking).

"Robert Frost" <thepineappleman@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:d44fd68b.0411110859.5c504afc@posting.google.com...
> I have 3 computers running xp networked via a netgear wireless router.
>
> I have a wireless laptop also running xp which connects perfectly to
> the lan via a wireless link to the netgear router and can access files
> on the other computers.
>
> I have a separate building in which there is a linksys wireless router
> which is connected by ethernet cable to the 4th port on the netgear
> router and is intended purely as a wireless access point. This works
> fine for internet access but will not allow the laptop to access the
> lan. Presumably this is because of a firewall in the linksys.
>
> The netgear router can see the linksys and gives it IP and MAC
> addresses.
>
> How can I get into the linksys to turn the firewall off?



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