Wrt54g Ver2 + Mac = Wrong Subnet

Come on Brainiacs, I know someone out there has some ideas - I googled and this has been happening, however, no solutions have been published. Afraid of a challenge? too busy telling people that "admin" goes in the password portion? Sheesh I have a functioning wireless network, I brought two Macs onboard (G4 Imac /OS 10.4). I can connect to the wireless network, however, while using DHCP I am issued the wrong subnet (255.255.0.0), resulting in a IPPA (169.x.x.x). Here is the odd thing, I was unsuccessfully working on a static IP setup on the Mac when I switched back to DHCP and it picked up the right subnet and viola it was working fine. I powered down and the next day the same thing, wrong subnet and I can't get it to replicate that scenario, if I could, I'd never shut it off. There has to be a fix for this, probably something simple, I am sick of googling, help me out would you?
Message Edited by Raz on 09-24-2007 03:00 PM

I guess you have connected the WRT54Gs through their LAN ports and the internet port is empty. That's the way how you use them as access points.
If you connect them that way the gateway or router mode is irrelevant. The mode only works between the LAN and WAN. They did not design the WRT really for use as access point with an open internet port and therefore this is not documented in the help file. I would leave the setting on gateway as then it is a setting less to change back in case you must use it as gateway later again. If you use router mode, make sure RIP is disabled. The router is not working as router thus it needs no routing information...
Regarding your question: the answer is only the obvious one: except for the more extended configuration options in the WAP I don't think their is an advantage for either one.

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