On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 7:10 PM, Thomas Milne <thomas.bruce.milne@gmail.com> wrote:
Here's another project I'm working on that is driving me around the bend.
Sorry this is such a long story...
A computer in our basement has no wireless, so instead of running a long cable to it, I wanted to put a router beside it and have it connect to that router by ethernet, and then have that router connect to the main one over wireless. No, I did not plug the computer into the WAN port... ;-)
I have an old Linksys router WRT54GL v. 1.1 running Tomato 1.28, and my main router, the Buffalo N600 which has DD-WRT.
According to about a hundred different howto's it should be very simple.
I set the second router to an IP outside the DHCP range of the first, and set also set it to use the first router as gateway and DNS. I also set the SSID and password the same, and also the type of security used. Oh, and obviously I set the second router as 'Wireless Ethernet Bridge'.
router 1 is 192.168.11.1, router 2 is 192.168.11.2
both have 255.255.255.0 as subnet mask
Router 1 gives out addresses starting at 192.168.11.5
Am I correct in assuming that DHCP broadcasts should be relayed by the second router? In wireless bridge mode it doesn't appear to even have the option of offering DHCP...
I noticed that the Buffalo will let you set up a virtual interface, so I tried using that with no security at all.
I also found something here:
http://www.cnet.com/how-to/reuse-an-old-router-to-bridge-devices-to-your-wir...
that said I should set the second router to operate as a router and not as a gateway so I changed that.
Still no ping response from google.com :-\
The only thing I can think of is that maybe the firewall settings are wrong on the second router, running Tomato.
Respond to ICMP is unchecked, Allow Multicast is unchecked, NAT Loopback is set to Forwarded Only, and Enable SYN cookies is unchecked.
Help!
Oh, I should also say I set both routers to use the same wireless network mode, G. Some howtos said they had to uses the same channel, some said different channel. I have tried both. I also tried setting the second router as gateway, not router, because of this: http://www.cyberciti.biz/networking/howto-connect-two-wireless-router-wirele... which at least was using a Tomato router so most of it had the same options. It's very hard when there are so many conflicting instructions :-/ -- Thomas Milne