On 08/12/2016 02:20 AM, William Park via talk wrote:
They are lying, again. I downloaded the user's manual. In the feature section, they mention "bridge". But, in the Client Mode chapter, they talk about DHCP, which mean it's NAT.
William, They are not lying. Wireless Bridge, and Client Mode are not the same thing at all. Wireless Bridge is Scenario 1. Client Mode is Scenario 2. Your searching on the wrong term, and Scenario 1 is Very Rare in Vendor Firmwares. I also repeat, I did my work 4 years ago, there have been a lot or revisions of the hardware and firmware in that time, and it's very possible that the feature was removed. Actually, forget manuals, let me give you screenshots. I just pulled my box of routers and one of my Spare TL-MR3020s that I've deliberately kept on the stock firmware. See Attached Screenshot. The setting is 'Enable WSD Bridge', and it pops out all the config options below it. You will in your SSID (or survey button, and select if from a list). Set Auth, and Password settings. And then reboot. Awh... and this is where 4 years my memory gets foggy. I was expecting my IP address to change, but it didn't. I then had to go manually disable DHCP on the the TL-MR3020 (which it will prompt to reboot for). After DHCP is disable, it stops winning the race condition, and you get the address from the hosting wifi AP. # Address from TL-MR3020 [scott@failfast ~]$ ifconfig enp0s20u3u1c2: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 192.168.0.100 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 After Disabling DHCP the TL-MR3020 rebooting, and myself re-connecting my laptop's Ethernet. # Address from SmartRG Router, over WSD client bridge. [scott@failfast ~]$ ifconfig enp0s20u3u1c2: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 192.168.1.7 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 FYI, this is a 3 year old router and build of the TP-Link's firmware. Firmware Version: 3.14.2 Build 120817 Rel.55520n Hardware Version: MR3020 v1 00000000 -- Scott Sullivan
