JonEberger Posted October 31, 2005 Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 is there some way that i can set up a wireless router to pull an ip from another wireless router wirelessly? if this were between two computers, i would call this ad-hoc.... it would be absolutely beautiful if i could use my old router for this purpose. the goal would then be to set my old router to pull an ip (wireless) from my new router. i wouldn't be rebroadcasting anything, but i would have my box connected to the old router via cat 5. seems like a cool idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 31, 2005 Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 I think a lot of this can depend on the wireless router/access point. I have a Netgear Wireless Access point, and it can neither receive or distribute DHCP IP addresses. This has meant I've had to configure the wireless machines with static IP Address, of which I wasn't too worried about anyway. But it wouldn't even pick up DHCP over the wired ethernet port either. So the access point had to have a static IP as well. I don't know any wireless routers/access points that do this, but I'm sure there must be one out there. Somewhere..... Sorry I can't help any further. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonEberger Posted October 31, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 that's exactly what i needed ian. i didn't know if there was any kind of an option that is deeply hidden which no one knows how to access or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted October 31, 2005 Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 I've done this with apple airports in the past and it works fine (if my memory is correct :P ). What routers are you using? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonEberger Posted October 31, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 i have a d-link dl-514 which is the router that i want to pull the ip from my netgear. so the sequence that i'd love would be my computer-----[dl-514]-------(via wireless)--------[netgear router]. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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