Yes please! -- Cheers,
[email protected] Sent from my phone, apologies for brevity, spelling & top posting > On 12 Apr 2015, at 12:57, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant <[email protected]> writes: > >> 4) (A bonus Monty Python question) I've a second wireless access point >> at the other end of the garden, attached by a suitable length of Cat >> 6. Devices at mid travel point ideally roam from House wifi to Shed >> wifi...but now they change IP address as well. To be honest I'm not >> sure how this actually works in a bridged environment either since the >> MAC now migrates from local wireless bridge interface to local wired >> interface and potentially back again as I wander around the >> garden...how does it really know where to send frames to this >> magically roaming device? > > Dunno about the rest of your list, but I have successfully set up > multiple access points with roaming by using VLANs between them. Of > course VLAN-aware switches help, but if you have the access points > connected directly via a wire, you can use the VLAN support in openwrt, > to basically bridge the wifi interfaces of the two access points. That > way you avoid the problems with broadcasting across the LAN/WLAN border, > but can still get roaming on the same IP subnet. You'll want to have one > access point running DHCP, and the other just being passively serving as > the access point. > > This can be setup via openwrt config files; can share my config if > you're interested. > >> It appears a lot of 'it just works' functionality is designed for >> bridged LAN/WLAN scenarios and hates routed but maybe I've got the >> wrong end of a stick. > > For some things, having the reflector functionality of avahi-daemon > turned on somewhere it can see both subnets helps on discovery and 'just > works'-iness :) > > -Toke
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