Re: USR 8054 as a bridge?

First off, there's only 1 actual ethernet card in the pf machine.  It's a
dial-up modem on the internet side so it's tun0 connected via serial port
(external modem).

Secondly I seem to have painted myself into a corner here because I'm
running pf on my laptop connected to the modem, and that's the only other
machine with wireless that I can test with.  I'll reconfigure things so a
desktop machine's connected to the modem then I can test with the laptop as
a wireless client.

So far I'm running one of the 8054 lan-side switch ports connected to my
main switch with other machines.  There's no connection to the WAN jack on
the 8054.  I don't have much control over what the 8054 is passing to its
DHCP clients, but I suspect it's only an IP address (no router/firewall,
DNS server IPs).  I'm using my ISP's DNS servers not my own, which puts the
DNS on the other side of the firewall.

The Kindle works here if I enter IP, gateway/router IP and DNS server IPs
manually on it.  I have no reason to run DHCPD other than this (all static
here).  I just have more control over what OpenBSD's DHCPD is passing to
clients.

Another option, not a very good one, is to use the laptop's internal ath0
interface and antennas in the lid configured as an access point, but I think
the antennas will have a rather directional pattern.  Another reason to free
up the laptop though.  I didn't expect to want wireless.

   Alan