[GTALUG] Second router as wireless ethernet bridge
Thomas Milne
thomas.bruce.milne at gmail.com
Thu Jan 8 03:44:32 UTC 2015
On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 9:43 PM, Little Bear <littlebear at xxw.ca> wrote:
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> Sorry, wasn't thinking when I typed it. Did you try
> http://lifehacker.com/how-to-extend-your-wi-fi-network-with-an-old-router-915783308
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> So 2nd router as as wireless repeater, the channel needs to be different
> or else they would fight with each other. The SSID shouldn't be the same
> as per the article. Most mobile devices supports multiple access point
> profile and they will auto-connect to which ever has greater strength.
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> I'm pretty sure you are looking at
> http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials/article.php/3810281
Thank you very much for this link, BTW
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> "Technically, when in client mode, your router can only pass the
> incoming wireless signal to clients connected to one of the router's LAN
> ports. To re-broadcast the signal wirelessly, the router would need to
> be configured as a repeater—unfortunately, Tomato does not yet support
> repeater mode."
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> http://www.linksysinfo.org/index.php?threads/using-tomato-as-wireless-repeater-sort-of.68322/
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> I don't have a tomato so I wouldn't know, but I've tested it with 2
> DD-WRT, 1 in Primary Gateway (DNS+DHCP) and one acting as wireless
> repeater and it works for me.
> On 1/7/2015 9:22 PM, Thomas Milne wrote:
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>> I don't think you understood what I am trying to do. The routers will
> not be physically connected, only over wireless.
>>
>> On Jan 7, 2015 9:19 PM, <littlebear at xxw.ca <mailto:littlebear at xxw.ca>>
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>> Plug the second router (acting as switch) WAN port to regular
> port. There should be no WAN Ethernet connected on the second router
>>
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>> Subject: [GTALUG] Second router as wireless ethernet bridge
>>
>> Here's another project I'm working on that is driving me around
> the bend.
>>
>> Sorry this is such a long story...
>>
>> A computer in our basement has no wireless, so instead of running a
>> long cable to it, I wanted to put a router beside it and have it
>> connect to that router by ethernet, and then have that router connect
>> to the main one over wireless. No, I did not plug the computer into
>> the WAN port... ;-)
>>
>> I have an old Linksys router WRT54GL v. 1.1 running Tomato 1.28, and
>> my main router, the Buffalo N600 which has DD-WRT.
>>
>> According to about a hundred different howto's it should be very
> simple.
>>
>> I set the second router to an IP outside the DHCP range of the first,
>> and set also set it to use the first router as gateway and DNS. I also
>> set the SSID and password the same, and also the type of security
>> used. Oh, and obviously I set the second router as 'Wireless Ethernet
>> Bridge'.
>>
>> router 1 is 192.168.11.1, router 2 is 192.168.11.2
>>
>> both have 255.255.255.0 as subnet mask
>>
>> Router 1 gives out addresses starting at 192.168.11.5
>>
>> Am I correct in assuming that DHCP broadcasts should be relayed by the
>> second router? In wireless bridge mode it doesn't appear to even have
>> the option of offering DHCP...
>>
>> I noticed that the Buffalo will let you set up a virtual interface, so
>> I tried using that with no security at all.
>>
>> I also found something here:
>>
>>
> http://www.cnet.com/how-to/reuse-an-old-router-to-bridge-devices-to-your-wireless-network/
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>> that said I should set the second router to operate as a router and
>> not as a gateway so I changed that.
>>
>> Still no ping response from google.com <http://google.com> :-\
>>
>> The only thing I can think of is that maybe the firewall settings are
>> wrong on the second router, running Tomato.
>>
>> Respond to ICMP is unchecked, Allow Multicast is unchecked, NAT
>> Loopback is set to Forwarded Only, and Enable SYN cookies is
>> unchecked.
>>
>> Help!
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