Bridging through built-in wireless to ethernet DHCP server

[originally posted here: Tiger Forums > Getting Online & Networking, where one suggestion was to try this forum]
I have a 1Gb ethernet LAN with my own DHCP, etc. servers, and an 802.11g WAP bridging to it using WPA2/AES. I've recently added two new Macs: an iMac connected to the ethernet and a MacBook connecting through its built-in wireless. This all works fine.
Since both Macs are 802.11n capable (with the addition of the $2 addon, which I've done), it occurred to me that I should be able to set up the built-in airport in the iMac as an 802.11n WAP that the MacBook could connect to as its preferred wireless network when the iMac's turned on, tripling it's connection speed to my LAN, and falling back to the 802.11g WAP when the iMac's not on.
I was able to do this pretty simply by setting up internet (LAN in my case) sharing on the iMac, and I could indeed get an 802.11n connection to it from the MacBook when the iMac was on, and fairly seamless failover to the 802.11g WAP when the iMac wasn't available.
Clearly, all the pieces are present to make my plan work, but there are two stumbling blocks:
1. I can't find a way to get the iMac to bridge directly to the ethernet, so that the central DHCP servers provide the configuration for the MacBook. I don't see an obvious way to allow DHCP, but not use the server built into the iMac (or configure it to hand out the addresses I want). It looks an awful lot like the iMac is NAT'ing the wireless to the ethernet, which is definitely not what I want.
Is there no way to configure the iMac's wireless as a passthrough (bridge) to the ethernet so it acts as a WAP (even if it only accepts one connection at a time)?
2. I have configured both Macs' wireless to connect to my WAP with WPA2/AES, and they do so just fine. When setting the iMac wireless up for internet sharing, why can't I set the same security options - it only offers me WEP, which I'm not willing to use.
I know the hardware can handle what I want, as can the BSD underpinnings of OS X (all of my LAN's servers run BSD variants), I just don't know how to configure it.
Can someone help?
Thanks.

>It looks an awful lot like the iMac is NAT'ing the wireless to the ethernet, which is definitely not what I want.
That's exactly what it does. The 'Internet Sharing' option enables NAT.
This may or may not be a problem, though - what is the MacBook missing by getting its configuration from the iMac rather than your regular DHCP server?
(by default, when you turn on internet sharing the OS starts up a DHCP server on the shared interface).
You might be able to get what you want by just turning on IP forwarding rather than the whole NATD/DHCPD package, but I'm not sure:
<pre class=command>sudo sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1</pre>
but you'd have to try it to see.
> When setting the iMac wireless up for internet sharing, why can't I set the same security options - it only offers me WEP, which I'm not willing to use
I don't know the technical reason for it, but I seem to recall that computer-to-computer wireless networks always (and only) use WEP. I don't know if this is because WPA isn't possible or if they just haven't gotten around to adding it, but WEP is your only option.

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