wireless connection solution

[garyh]

Our company has a product use static IP. Our customer wants to use wireless LAN DHCP to connect our product. Could you tell me what is the solution? Do I need to buy wired router and wireless bridge? If yes, how to set up the router? If no, what do you suggest to buy?

Your assistance is highly appreciated.

[Leo Laohoo]

Hard to tell what is required if we don't know what the product is?  I mean if the product doesn't have a wireless card, then how is it going to connect to the customer's wireless network?

Static IP address is very easy and there are a lot of ways around this:  One can hard-code the IP address or assign a DHCP reservation based on the MAC address of the NIC.

[garyh]

The product is cable tester. The embedded processor board has a Ethernet connect using static IP. A laptop wireless LAN need to talk to the embedded processor to send command and receive result. The laptop wireless LAN is in DHCP wireless network. How can the embedded processor static IP Ethernet connect to the DHCP wireless network? 

[Leo Laohoo]

How can the embedded processor static IP Ethernet connect to the DHCP wireless network? 

Depends on how the network is set up. 

Is the network a big, fat Layer 2 network where both wired and wireless reside in a single subnet?  Or the network broken up in to different subnets.  

If it's broken up into different subnets then this can be solved by static or dynamic routing by a Layer 3 device.  

[garyh]

If the wireless network and wired network are in the same subnet, what device do we need to buy? wireless bridge or router?

If the wireless network and wired network aren't in the same subnet, what device do we need to buy? wireless bridge or router?