How to turn d-link wireless router to a switch?

[Nick Davey]

You do not need a crossover cable. The LAN ports on the D-Link router  
are Auto-MDI/MDIX, i.e., the hardware will "reconfigure" itself  
automatically to accept either a straight cable or a crossover cable.

There are several threads on this forum which discuss how to connect  
a second router to behave only as an Access Point. The basic steps  
are as follows:

1) Disable DHCP on the D-Link router
2) Under WAN, assign it a Static IP Address, it doesn't matter what  
this is.
3) Do NOT connect anything to the WAN port of the D-Link router. Use  
your ethernet cable to connect a LAN port on your D-Link router to  
the rest of your network.

Good luck!



On 27-Jan-06, at 10:49 AM, hui xu wrote:

>
> All,
>
> Anybody can tell me how to turn a dlink wireless
> router to a wireless switch?
>
> I just want to use the dlink to work as wireless
> switch in my local lan not as a router?
>
> Current the dlink wireless  works as router between my
> linux server and my client latop, I can not find a way
> to rlogin in to my linux server form my lan.
>
>
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> hui
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