Hi all,

after I've come to like FreeWRT much more than OpenWRT by now, I've
been working on migrating my home network to FreeWRT and I was almost
successful. Everything worked perfectly until I migrated the access
point, but since then the wireless is behaving erratic, unreliable and
I cannot figure out why. That's why I need your help.

Here is the setup:

[internet] --- [ AP: Linksys WRT54GL ] ...(wlan)... [ SL: Linksys WRT54GL ]
                         .
                         .
                         .
                       (wlan)
                         .
                         .
               [ ON: ASUS WL 500g ]

AP = Access point, connected by cable to cable modem (internet via DHCP).

SL = Server Location, working as bridge

ON = Office Network, working as bridge

To keep things simple, I have three networks:

   192.168.1.1 is the subnet of the access point
   192.168.2.1 is the subnet of the servers
   192.168.3.1 is the subnet of the office

Here is the network setup file (/etc/network/interfaces) of the AP:
# basic network configuration file
# for more information, see the FreeWRT handbook
# http://www.freewrt.org/trac/wiki/Documentation/Handbook

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# LAN ports
auto eth0.0
iface eth0.0 inet manual
      switch-ports 0 1 2 3 5*

# Local network is bridged between WLAN & LAN
auto br0
iface br0 inet static
      bridge-ifaces eth0.0 eth1
      address 192.168.1.1
      netmask 255.255.255.0
      up route add -net 192.168.2.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.1.2 dev 
$IFACE
      up route add -net 192.168.3.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.1.3 dev 
$IFACE

# WAN port gets its IP via DHCP
auto eth0.1
iface eth0.1 inet dhcp
      switch-ports 4 5

# WLAN with WPA2
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet manual
        wireless-type broadcom
        wireless-country CH
        wireless-mode ap
        wireless-ssid <essid>
        wireless-channel 4
        wireless-security wpa-psk
        wireless-authorization psk2
        wireless-encryption aes+tkip
        wireless-wpa-key <wpa2 key>
of the Server Location bridge:
# basic network configuration file
# for more information, see the FreeWRT handbook
# http://www.freewrt.org/trac/wiki/Documentation/Handbook

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# LAN & WAN ports all on one interface
auto eth0.0
iface eth0.0 inet static
        address 192.168.2.1
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        switch-ports 0 1 2 3 4 5*

# WLAN with WPA2
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet static
        address 192.168.1.2
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        gateway 192.168.1.1
        up route add -net 192.168.3.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.1.3 dev 
$IFACE
        wireless-type broadcom
        wireless-country CH
        wireless-mode sta
        wireless-ssid <essid>
        wireless-channel 4
        wireless-security wpa-psk
        wireless-authorization psk2
        wireless-encryption aes+tkip
        wireless-wpa-key <wpa2 key>
and of the Office Network:
# basic network configuration file
# for more information, see the FreeWRT handbook
# http://www.freewrt.org/trac/wiki/Documentation/Handbook

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# LAN & WAN ports on local bridge
auto br0
iface br0 inet static
        bridge-ifaces eth0 eth1
        address 192.168.3.1
        netmask 255.255.255.0

# WLAN with WPA2
auto eth2
iface eth2 inet static
        address 192.168.1.3
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        gateway 192.168.1.1
        up route add -net 192.168.2.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.1.2 dev 
$IFACE
        wireless-type broadcom
        wireless-country CH
        wireless-mode sta
        wireless-ssid <essid>
        wireless-channel 4
        wireless-security wpa-psk
        wireless-authorization psk2
        wireless-encryption aes+tkip
        wireless-wpa-key <wpa2 key>

All of these nodes eventually connect to each other. As soon as a
second or third connects, the whole thing seems to breaks down,
however.

When the AP was running OpenWRT Whiterussian RC5 and the other two
boxes were running FreeWRT 1.0 revision 1827, all worked fine. The
problems started after I migrated the access point.

So my guess is that I am missing something about the access point.

But what?

Help appreciated,
Georg


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