wireless network + wired network = ?

[Walter Mautner]

Gabriel Dragffy wrote:

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> Aha!  I wanted to do this in the beginning, my extra switch has an
> uplink-port on it, but the sireless linksys has non such uplink port. In
> my experience if I connect the regular port of the linksys to the uplink
> on the switch it won't work. As you have said though I may need to
> re-crimp the cable into a x-over format. Cheers!!

The uplink port on your wireless router may connect to your broadband, or is
interally wired to the adsl or whatever "modem".
But then, you can have a really cheap switch with 8 ports and auto-uplink,
where it doesn't matter if you use straight or crossover cables anywhere.
The router should hand out dhcp addresses for many more then the 4 physical
ports plus wireless, but you may have locked it by MAC address
so "strangers" can't obtain a lease, or otherwise limited the range.
Using the mentioned computer as a 2nd router/bridge doesn't bring any
advantage but adds to your energy bills, and another point of failure as
well.
You would have to set it for connection sharing and maybe 192.168.2.0/24 
on the interface connected to your switch - and setup a dhcp server that 
only serves the 2nd interface.
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