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I've done the same as charliex suggests, I've got a SMC wireless router that I just added on to the rest of my already established lan behind a router'd DSL connection, and I wanted to just treat the wireless router as a switch, but for some reason the thing just didn't want to pass the DHCP requests between the wireless clients and the other clients on the main lan (over a crossover plugged into a standard port)... this could be because of the nature of the switch not broadcasting to everyone, but I don't know for sure... so I just set it up as it should be, the wan port connects to my lan and it hands out it's own ip addresses... Works great for surfing, but I can't access my shares on the main lan, nor can I access back to the wireless connected clients, even with the firewall disabled, of course I think this is because there is only the one ip address visible to the main lan and the router isn't going to send the smb packets to everyone on the wireless lan. So... needless to say, the wireless router is only being used for wireless, it's 4 lan ports will never be used... I shoulda just got a WAP, but I was bein' cheap... one day I will have money for it...
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