Re: Recommendation for a wireless router in a small business environme
From: Dave Weeden (dave_at_nospam.com)
Date: 01/05/05
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Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 01:33:58 -0800
It's not "passing on the request". Rather the DHCP client lease broadcast
request is picked up by the AD domain controller.
I can attest to the fact that it does work very nicely.
Also, though you can disable SSID broadcast, it doesn't do MAC address
filtering. I used to use that on an old LinkSys router until a hardware
specialist friend of mine said that it was trivial to breach (I just took
his word for it). I immediately started using WEP after hearing that and
have since evelved to WPA-PSA TKIP (the latest / greatest / supposedly most
secure). The latter is far easier to configure.
Bottom line though of course is that wireless never can be as secure as
wired.
http://dlink.com/products/?sec=1&pid=6 (an outstanding value for $85)
"James B" <nospam@here.com> wrote in message
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>I would question how that is working myself. You say you have disabled the
> DHCP in the wireless router and it is then passing on DHCP request to the
> server? I've not found any low end wireless that can do that and I just
> checked the DLink site and it's not clear by their docs that if you
> disable
> DHCP it will forward the request to another server since they go into how
> to
> setup static addresses. Also that DLink product is a router which he
> doesn't
> need or really want, he wants an Access Point even though he said router.
> If
> the Dlink products do this then cool, I may have to give them another
> look.
>
> I would send an email to Dlink and Linksys to see if their low end
> (consumer) products perform the function he is requesting for an Access
> Point plus these features:
>
> 1. Pass DHCP to another DHCP server ***
> 2. MAC address control (most do)
> 3. WEP, AES, disable SSID (again most do)
>
>
>
>
> "Dave Weeden" <dave@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:OqGQ4%23y7EHA.2180@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>> I would use a DLink DI-624 with the latest firmware, in conjunction with
>> a
>> DWL-G650 its smokin at 108 Mbps! Good security as well with XP's WPA-PSK
> /
>> TKIP (IMHO).
>>
>> I have a similar setup with just a single router. If you hook one of the
>> the LAN ports of the router to a 16 port hub/switch, you'll still be able
> to
>> wire in 18 (3 + 15) systems. I'd definitely hook your servers up to the
>> switch in this situation.
>>
>> You can use the dhcp of the router or Win2k3 (but not both). I've
> disabled
>> the router's dhcp functionality so my Win2k3 DC can orchestrate who's
> where.
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> "Theo" <Theo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:A078183F-8D67-4EF3-9C97-7BBC139996AC@microsoft.com...
>> > We currently have a linksys router that connects 12 computers to the
>> > window
>> > 2003 server.
>> > We have a domain setup, 2 domain controllers and a file server.
>> > The current setup is all wired.
>> >
>> > Now what we want in the future is to have wireless capability within
> the
>> > office for the roaming laptops.
>> >
>> > Please recommend for me a wireless router that will:
>> > 1) work with our existing wired LAN (basically we want to have wired
>> > and
>> > wireless capability)
>> >
>> > 2)Work with window server 2003 and dhcp server
>> >
>> > 3) provide reliability and security
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks in advanced,
>> >
>> > -Theo
>>
>>
>
>
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