and just FWIW.... I have a pair of WAP54G's (nothing special like your WRT54G) that handle bridging to each other fine, so I can't imagine that the default Linksys firmware wouldn't handle it in case you want to go the simple route.
-- William Sutton On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Owen Berry wrote: > Great! And thanks for all the info! > > Owen > > On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 01:58:53PM -0400, Greg Brown wrote: > > Yes this is possible and I have done the same in a number of ways using > > OpenWRT. > > > > 1st and easiest way - bridge: > > > > AP #1 - primary AP, configured SSID and let's say WEP (depending on what > > version of WhiteRussian you install WPA may or may not work in bridge mode. > > I have had luck with Version5 of WhiteRussian and am using that version to > > power all APs I use at the beach). > > > > Anyway on the second AP once you get OpenWRT installed: > > > > set wl0_ssid= to the same ssid that you have on your primary AP > > set wl0_key1= to the same wep key you use on your primary AP > > set wl0_wep=enabled > > set wl0_mode=wet (wet for bridge, sta for routing, I use wet - it is easier) > > set lan_ipaddr= to a unique ip address on your LAN > > set lan_gateway= to your gateway address > > set lan_dns to your DNS address > > > > After all that, run 'nvram commit' to reload everything and reboot > > > > Success will be a ping that returns from OpenWRT unit while it is not > > plugged into anything else. > > > > If you have Macs this is a point-and-shoot affiar with Airport access points > > but you'll end up with less ports and you'll spend quite a bit more money. > > > > You can also use WDS mode for your openwrt box. Using WDS you'll end up > > with a repeater that you can attach to just like your primary AP (you'll > > also eat up more bandwidth this way, but who cares about that?) :) > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
