Dan Martin wrote:
Is there a simple way to use this device as a simple wired and wireless 'switch' on my LAN? or should I simply throw in the towel and let the base station be a router and firewall, and do away with a gateway computer?
There is no problem doing double Nat but you should be able to set it up just a switch.
- turn off DHCP on your airport. - make sure the LAN network is the same subnet as your current LAN. - assign an unique address to the airport router within your current LAN subnet - make sure the wireless Mac's gateway address is pointing to your current gateway.
-- Bill