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Bridging 2 lan segments with 2 APs?
Posted:
Wed May 23, 2007 5:44 am
by humbletech99
Is it possible to bridge to ethernet segments using 2 APs configured to be on the same wifi network?
I expect this to be possible since this is what the APs do for wifi clients like laptops. If both APs can see each other's packets on the same wifi network they shouldn't they be able to bridge them?
I tried this with 2 wifi APs I have, a Netgear DG834G and a Linksys WRT54G. I configured them with the same SSIDs, same channel, both wpa with the same wpa pre-shared key. I made their ip addresses different so as not to conflict.
Everything on either side of these APs are on the same ip subnet, I just want the APs to pass the packets to each other as though it was one big lan.
Didn't seem to work though, any ideas why? Is it due to an association thing?
Posted:
Wed May 23, 2007 5:47 am
by streaker69
humbletech99 wrote:Is it possible to bridge to ethernet segments using 2 APs configured to be on the same wifi network?
I expect this to be possible since this is what the APs do for wifi clients like laptops. If both APs can see each other's packets on the same wifi network they shouldn't they be able to bridge them?
I tried this with 2 wifi APs I have, a Netgear DG834G and a Linksys WRT54G. I configured them with the same SSIDs, same channel, both wpa with the same wpa pre-shared key. I made their ip addresses different so as not to conflict.
Everything on either side of these APs are on the same ip subnet, I just want the APs to pass the packets to each other as though it was one big lan.
Didn't seem to work though, any ideas why? Is it due to an association thing?
Yep, you didn't configure the AP's to actually be in Bridge mode.
Posted:
Wed May 23, 2007 6:03 am
by humbletech99
streaker69 wrote:Yep, you didn't configure the AP's to actually be in Bridge mode.
But to my knowledge neither of these APs has any option to go into bridging mode. You mean I need to run these in Ad-hoc mode instead of Infrastructure mode? I don't recall seeing anything like this on the webmin pages of the Netgear DG834G or the Linksys WRT54G...
Posted:
Wed May 23, 2007 6:04 am
by streaker69
humbletech99 wrote:But to my knowledge neither of these APs has any option to go into bridging mode. You mean I need to run these in Ad-hoc mode instead of Infrastructure mode? I don't recall seeing anything like this on the webmin pages of the Netgear DG834G or the Linksys WRT54G...
Welp, there's your answer fishbulb.
Get equipment that's properly spec'ed to do the job.
Posted:
Wed May 23, 2007 6:08 am
by Airstreamer
Research? Streak, you actually EXPECT people to do RESEARCH?!?
Nah, they'd rather blather about Pearass Hilton going to jail.
Posted:
Wed May 23, 2007 6:10 am
by streaker69
Airstreamer wrote:Research? Streak, you actually EXPECT people to do RESEARCH?!?
Nah, they'd rather blather about Pearass Hilton going to jail.
You're saying she has a fuzzy ass? I don't even want to know how you know that.
Posted:
Wed May 23, 2007 6:11 am
by humbletech99
ok that's what I wanted to know, if it was possible to do it with commodity hardware or not, seeing as I have 2 of the most popular APs.
Ok, well, I'm not going to go and buy new kit just for this, I'll figure something else out. In fact, I could probably bridge this on my linux laptop... I just wanted to know it can be done.
Posted:
Wed May 23, 2007 6:12 am
by humbletech99
streaker69 wrote:You're saying she has a fuzzy ass? I don't even want to know how you know that.
pears aren't fuzzy, peaches are.
Posted:
Wed May 23, 2007 6:13 am
by streaker69
humbletech99 wrote:pears aren't fuzzy, peaches are.
Maybe where you are, but down here, they're fuzzy.
that's my story and I'm sticking to it
Posted:
Wed May 23, 2007 6:15 am
by streaker69
humbletech99 wrote:ok that's what I wanted to know, if it was possible to do it with commodity hardware or not, seeing as I have 2 of the most popular APs.
Ok, well, I'm not going to go and buy new kit just for this, I'll figure something else out. In fact, I could probably bridge this on my linux laptop... I just wanted to know it can be done.
Properly designing a network should always be the first step, after that, spec'ing the correct hardware. If you can connect the two segments using Wire, that's better than doing wireless.
Posted:
Wed May 23, 2007 6:17 am
by Airstreamer
humbletech99 wrote:pears aren't fuzzy, peaches are.
/pssst...
Beware the shift key, it will bite you on here.
If you had bothered to search this forum, you would have found information describing what hardware and what firmware to use.
Posted:
Wed May 23, 2007 6:19 am
by humbletech99
yes I know but where I live I have 3 stories and I don't wanna wreck the place so no cabling.
I am going to go get a Linksys open firmware for the 54G. Looks like my 54G is wayyyyyyyyyy better than my netgear thanks to the efforts of the open source community and these lovely firmware projects.
I'm not speccing anything, I am just looking for workarounds with what I already have, dug my old wrt54g out yesterday and looks like I'm getting get some interesting use out of it now.
Posted:
Wed May 23, 2007 6:20 am
by streaker69
humbletech99 wrote:yes I know but where I live I have 3 stories and I don't wanna wreck the place so no cabling.
I am going to go get a Linksys open firmware for the 54G. Looks like my 54G is wayyyyyyyyyy better than my netgear thanks to the efforts of the open source community and these lovely firmware projects.
I'm not speccing anything, I am just looking for workarounds with what I already have, dug my old wrt54g out yesterday and looks like I'm getting get some interesting use out of it now.
A WAP54G will bridge into a WRT54G.
Posted:
Wed May 23, 2007 6:20 am
by humbletech99
Airstreamer wrote:/pssst...
Beware the shift key, it will bite you on here.
If you had bothered to search this forum, you would have found information describing what hardware and what firmware to use.
I don't get the shift key remark.
sorry perhaps I should have searched first, but like I said, I'm not speccing anything, I'm just playing with what I have...
Posted:
Wed May 23, 2007 6:32 am
by wrzwaldo
humbletech99 wrote:I don't get the shift key remark.
Then I guess you should go read the "Welcome Desk" posts...
sorry perhaps I should have searched first, but like I said, I'm not speccing anything, I'm just playing with what I have...
Yes, then you would have had the answers to your questions.