I had my first experience of bricking a wireless router today. Fortunately, I had a backup router on hand.
The steps listed in "AP Configuration" seem incomplete. Today I flashed my secondary WRT54GL with DD-WRT and loaded factory defaults. "Make sure that the access point is NOT running as a DHCP server and it's not running NAT" 1. DD-WRT does not have NAT enabled. That's easy. 2. To not run a DHCP Server means that I should turn off DHCP completely? I only see options for DHCP Server and DHCP Forwarding. I assume I want DHCP Forwarding? Should I turn off DNSMasq? Also, would be wrong to turn off DHCP for the WAN link? (I think that's how I bricked my router.) The XS wants to issue DHCP assignments through the router, right? Do I need to change the router operating mode from Gateway to Router (DD-WRT Advanced Routing / Operating Mode)? Currently, my router gets assigned WAN IP 172.18.96.24, which looks correct. However, the schoolserver log shows: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:1e:c9:04:9a:b0 via 192.168.1.1: unknown network segment 00:1e:c9:04:9a:b0 is my laptop's Ethernet MAC address. I get an analogous result if I try to connect via wireless. I presume the schoolserver is expecting DHCPDISCOVER via the router's WAN IP? How can I accomplish this? The Linksys routing table is: 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 0.0.0.0 LAN & WLAN 172.18.96.0 255.255.224.0 0.0.0.0 WAN 169.254.0.0 255.255.0.0 0.0.0.0 LAN & WLAN 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 172.18.96.1 WAN Do I want to statically assign the router to 172.18.96.24? (Probably not.) Suggestions welcome. Thanks for your help. -- American? Vote on the National Initiative for Democracy, http://votep2.us _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
