Station/Router Mode

Hello All,

This is a bit long.

I have a 3com 2450 running linuxap (the latest version) and I have a few
questions concerning something I am wanting to do.  If these seem like
stupid questions, please forgive.  I did look around on the mail list
but could not find anything that made things clear.

First my setup:

A home network connected to the Internet via a Cisco DSL modem/router.
Cisco internal IP 192.168.0.1
On my home network I have a W2K box acting as a DNS server  IP
192.168.0.100  DHCP is working fine
Various Linux and W2K boxes connected to my switch  all with IPs of
192.168.0.x
A linksys WAP11 in AP mode.  IP 192.168.0.250
A couple of laptops that use the WLAN  192.168.0.68 and 69


What I am trying to do:

I have a guest house that is located some distance from my house that
gets MARGINAL (at best) wlan connection.

I want to put a wlan connection in this house that talkes to my WAP11
and connect this to a hub and let the guests connect their computer to
the hub, thus giving them an IP address from DHCP and letting them
connect to the internet or whatever.
I know that I can do this with bridging, but I want to leave my WAP11 in
AP mode so that other machines can commect to it within it's range.
I am under the impression that linuxap in Station/Router mode can
connect to an AP as a station (client) and act as sort of a bridge or
router providing connectivity through the eth0 port.

I have linuxap on the 3com setup as follows

Running is Station/Router mode
wlan0 port 192.168.0.3  static
eth0 port 192.168.0.4 static

On the network config screen all of the misc settings are blank.  I am
not sure how to set these up.

telnetd is working OK
dhcpd is disabled (I would like to pull IPs from my W2K server)
WLAN settings are set to my ssid and my key and channel ok.  WLAN seems
to work OK, but I am not sure what the WDS entry means.

My Delima:

I can telnet or serial connect to the linuxap box and with the ethernet
cabel disconnected, ping everything on the network, so WLAN is working
OK.
I connect the linuxap box to a hub and then a computer setup to grab
dhcp info to another port on the hub but it does not get an IP from my
W2K box.  I can statically assign an IP to the computer and it will not
even ping the linuxap eth0 port.  I know the hub is working and all
connect lights are good.  I even turned the linuxap dhcpd server on and
it assigned an IP and other info but the computer still could not see
the network.

With all this said and done, I feel that I   1.) am trying to do
something that can't be done or  2.) I have a routing issue in the
linuxap box and need some help setting this up.

Any and all help greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Keith Tucker
[email protected]