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DD-WRT and repeater Bridge mode

I have the RC5 repeater mode working but cannot get repeater bridge working. Repeater/bridge works for teh wired connections and I can connect to the wireless repeater but do not get any connection to the internet. Not sure what is going on. Any ideas. I have been playing with DD-WRt for a lon long time but I am stumped on this one.

In RC 6 and RC6.2, I cannot get a wireless connection to teh repeater so backup to the RC5

I have three of them working great..
repeater bridge uses same subnet - you have to assign an IP to the bridge LAN address on the same subnet of your AP

give your Virtual WLAN a different SSID than the main WLAN (for ex: DanLan and DanLan-Rpt1)

I used WPA TKIP on both the WLAN dna VWLAN

I used the WIKI pretty much verbatim

Restore Factory Defaults on Secondary(DD-WRT) Router
Connect to the secondary router via wired or wireless client keeping in mind the dd-wrt default settings for dhcp pool and ssid
Open the Wireless -> Basic Settings tab
Wireless Mode : Repeater Bridge
Wireless Network Mode : Match Primary Router
Wireless Network Name(SSID) : Match Primary Router
Wireless Channel : Match Primary Router
Wireless SSID Broadcast : Enable
Network Configuration : Bridged
Save Settings
Virtual Interfaces Section
Add
Wireless Network Name(SSID) : Different from Primary Router
Wireless SSID Broadcast : Enable
AP Isolation : Disable
Network Configuration : Bridged
Save Settings
Open the Setup -> Basic Setup tab
Connection Type : Disabled
IP Address : 192.168.1.2 (Assuming Primary Router IP is 192.168.1.1)
Mask : 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.1.1 (again assuming Primary Router IP is 192.168.1.1)
Assign WAN Port to Switch : Checked or Unchecked - your choice
Save Settings
Open the Security -> Firewall tab
Uncheck all boxes
Disable SP1 firewall
Save Settings
Open the Status -> Wireless tab [redhawk - If this step is performed the repeater bridge may not work - skip to Step 8]
Wiviz Survey (or Site Survey)
Join Primary Router
Continue
Open the Administration tab
APPLY Settings (In V24 after 07/04/07...use Save for previous versions)

Got it working late last night. NO problem if I use a fixed IP on the my LAPTOP. ONce I Stand up a repeater and connect to it, if using DHCP i issued a 'REPAIR' to the network configutation and it went out and got me a new IP and it worked great. JUst a simple thing that I should have thought about before.

OH well, that what learning is all about.
THanks for your reply

I have had problems with RC4 in Bridged Repeater mode. DHCP will not work when using a Sonicwall as DHCP server. However, using a Windows DHCP server the wireless clients of the Bridged Repeater will obtain a lease. Using static IP addys shows no problem.

Have not tried the newer RCs but worth a shot. The hardware is 50 miles away so it will be while until I get a chance to try them.

RC5 repeater bridge mode works fine

reply to dellsweig
I'm having one problem with Repeater Bridge using DD-WRT v24 RC-6 (12/30/07) std (SVN revision 8733M Eko)nokaid. I have one PC that connects to the AP router, but can't see any other devices (including the host router). Not 10 feet away is another laptop that works just peachy, and can ping any device on the network. I can't figure out why the problem laptop can't see the entire network.

Other than that I'm really happy with Repeater Bridge - I agree that it is faster and far more stable than WDS.