Routers
Wireless LAN routers are accessible for deploying wireless LANs in baby offices and homes.
These devices, such as the Linksys WRT54GS, accommodate arrangement band functions in accession to the
access point’s wireless functionality. An chip Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
server assigns IP addresses to wireless LAN user devices, and Arrangement Abode Translation (NAT)
is accessible to bind the bounded clandestine addresses to a distinct accessible IP abode provided by an Internet
service provider (ISP). The wireless LAN router artlessly connects to a broadband modem, such as
digital subscriber band (DSL) or cable modem, and the absence settings action actual wireless
LAN admission to the Internet to wireless users.
Most beyond enterprises install admission credibility and not routers. The DHCP and NAT casework are
provided from a axial server to all users aural the company. The Cisco 350, for example, allows
a aggregation to about-face the admission point into a router. This ability be all-important if a ample enterprise
needs to accouterments a baby alien appointment with wireless LAN admission to an ISP.