Em 16/03/2014 21:28, "Gregory Seidman" <[email protected]> escreveu: > > I currently have a single router (Buffalo WZR-HP-AG300H) happily running > Attitude Adjustment, and my wifi coverage is fine for my current house. I > am moving into a larger house later this year, however, and I believe I'll > need a second access point (i.e. OpenWRT router) to cover the whole thing. > The new house is/will be wired with cat6, so I want to take advantage of > that. > > It seems to me that it should be as simple as setting up a second router > wired to (a LAN port on) the first, not running dnsmasq or any IP routing, > and simply bridging wlan with the wired ports (i.e. no WAN zone at all, all > network devices in the LAN zone). So, several questions based on that > setup: > > 1) Is it really that simple? Yes. What you described is what is needed to turn a wireless router into a simple ap.
> > 2) Setting the two APs to (sufficiently) different channels should avoid > interference where their coverage overlaps, right? Yes, but not true for too close channels. Use 1, 6 or 11. > > 3) For client devices to hand off properly, do I want identical or > different SSIDs? Use exactly the same settings for both devices wireless and clients will deal with the choice. > > 4) If identical, I presumably need to make WPA2 shared secret identical as > well. Do I also need to make the wlan MAC addresses identical? No, only settings. Each router will have its own bssid. > > 5) Assume that all of my client devices support 802.11b, g, and n. If I > test out this setup using a LinkSys WRT54GL that I happen to have lying > around as my second router, will its lack of 802.11n mean that any > success or failure I have with devices handing off from one to the other > will be pretty much meaningless for a setup with both routers supporting > 802.11n? I'm confused :-) too long sentence. But probably they will select the supported mode when migrating. Just give a try. > > 6) Have I missed anything? You could use a second ssid for connecting both OpenWrt wirelessly, using wds. However, cable is always better. > > --Greg > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-users
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