[GTALUG] Second router as wireless ethernet bridge

[Bob Copeland]

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> If you set the second router into wireless ethernet bridge mode (not
> wireless client mode), then dhcp requests should just pass through to the
> dhcp server on the main router that is the wifi access point.
>
> The second router should not have any firewall or anything like that
> enabled.  It is purely a wired to wireless ethernet bridge and should
> not be getting involved in the actual packets anymore.

Not every device supports this mode though: you need to be able to use
4-address framing at the wireless level, so that the source address on
the ethernet segment is preserved (see:
http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/clientmode)

If you happen to have ath9k on board, you can use 802.11s for this
kind of thing: run both a mesh and AP interface on each access point
and join them with the mesh interface.  Then, your clients can connect
to either AP and even roam between them based on RSSI or whatever.
11s is designed to make all the participants look like they are on the
same LAN so DHCP etc. will work across it and you don't have to run
separate IP networks.

(I work on 802.11s in Linux.)

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