On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 7:10 PM, Thomas Milne <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ > > 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 :-\ > > 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! > Oh, I should also say I set both routers to use the same wireless network mode, G. Some howtos said they had to uses the same channel, some said different channel. I have tried both. I also tried setting the second router as gateway, not router, because of this:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/networking/howto-connect-two-wireless-router-wirelessly-bridge-with-open-source-software/ which at least was using a Tomato router so most of it had the same options. It's very hard when there are so many conflicting instructions :-/ -- Thomas Milne --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
