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The second type of mesh router was an Internet gateway router. These routers contained two
network devices, one D-Link DWL-AG530 802.11a wireless card to connect to the mesh
network, and a wired Ethernet card to connect to the Internet. These mesh routers were
configured as gateways, and, as described in Chapter 5, advertised themselves as such so that
other mesh routers would know where to forward packets destined to an external network. The
Figure 3-2 below shows how one of these devices is configured.
Figure 3-2: Hardware Configuration of Gateway Router
Wireless and Wired Client Support
The last type of mesh router was a client gateway router. These routers contained two network
devices, one D-Link DWL-AG530 802.11a wireless card to connect to the mesh network, and a
second network card to connect clients to the mesh network. The second network card was either
through a wireless network shown in Figure 3-3 or a wired network with the same hardware
configuration as Figure 3-2, depending on the type of clients that were connected. For this
project, there were two machines that could be configured as a client gateway, one with a wired
Ethernet adapter and another with a U.S. Robotics USR2410 802.11b wireless card.
Figure 3-3: Hardware Configuration of the Client Gateway Router
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