[PLUG] Unidirectional Network Commection

[Joe Pruett]

>> my guess is that it is doing routing, and it sounds like it is using the
>> same ip range, which is really confusing.
>
>   Why's this confusing?

it isn't confusing if the device is bridging between the wireless and the 
wired side.  but when you use the wan port, it does nat routing (unless 
that device has the ability to be setup in wap mode, or bridge mode or 
something like that).  since you are seeing one way pingability, that 
sounds like the laptop is behind a nat box (just like your internet 
router).  by using the lan ports on the linksys you'll get bridged 
behaviour because those are both "inside" the nat.  with dhcp disabled on 
the linksys, your laptop dhcp will be bridged to the netgear and get that 
info for routing, dns, etc and the gateway functionality on the linksys 
won't be used.