On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 9:03 PM, Kelvin Edmison <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been experimenting with two WNDR3800s and meshing, and I'm starting to > wonder if meshing is the right answer for a typical residential user who > needs multiple APs.
Well, an alternative is to bridge or use WDS. > > My use case is a single cable internet connection, and a footprint that > needs 2 APs to provide sufficient high-performance coverage. I would like > to provide guest and internal WiFi networks at both APs, so that both will > be reasonably fast. > > I initially set up mesh mode according to wiki directions, and have it > mostly up and running. I can ping from a machine connected to the second > router, across the mesh, to the first router and out to the internet. > > The problems I am experiencing are that > 1) the second router by default isn't set to forward DNS requests to the > first router, so I have to configure each of the interfaces manually to > supply the IP of the primary router as the DNS server ? that's one line > 2) both routers try to maintain DNS for home.lan and do not exchange > information. That is something of a problem. The right thing here would be to use subnets downstairs.home.lan upstairs.home.lan so you can have the databases be correctly separated. > 3) the Macs in the household go a little nuts when they change networks as > they seem to detect the mdns repeater as a conflict when trying to assume > ownership of the hostname on the new network. My Mac's hostname has changed > repeatedly to avoid the conflict and is now tesla-71.local. stuart cheshire is starting up a project to make dns-sd with a hybrid proxy work right, so we can git rid of the klugey multicast forwarding causing this problem (on WAY more networks than just ceros, this is a problem on many campus's worldwide) and actually use the defined standard for dealing with multiple mdns subnets. http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cheshire-mdnsext-hybrid-02 some code already exists as fallout of the homenet wg and was demonstrated at ietf. It works... It will be a huge relief to have this problem resolved sometime in the near future. developers wanted! > > Is mesh the right way to go here? What are best practices for tackling > these issues? > > Thanks, > Kelvin > > _______________________________________________ > Cerowrt-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel > -- Dave Täht Fixing bufferbloat with cerowrt: http://www.teklibre.com/cerowrt/subscribe.html _______________________________________________ Cerowrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel
