8
Communicating With an Ethernet Network
If you already have a small network in your home or office, you can connect
the Symphony HomeRF Base Station directly to an Ethernet cabling hub in
order to provide connectivity between wireless computers and nodes on the
wired Ethernet, as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2
Communicating With a Wired Ethernet Network
Note:
The Base Station is designed to provide connectivity to small Ether-
net networks that contain up to seven Ethernet nodes. Do not con-
nect the Base Station to a cabling hub that has more than seven
Ethernet devices attached.
The Base Station transparently links the two networks so that to each node
there appears to be only one network. This function is known as Transparent
Bridging.
In this configuration, each computer will have the ability to share files and
printers with all of the other computers on the wireless and Ethernet networks.
For example, if you have a network server (such as a Windows 2000 server) on
the Ethernet backbone, you can use the Base Station to provide wireless com-
puters with the same client/server and file sharing capabilities available on
existing Ethernet clients.
