On Thursday, March 15, 2018 09:42:25 PM David Wright wrote: > On Thu 15 Mar 2018 at 10:18:20 (-0700), Don Armstrong wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, David Wright wrote: > > > When you reprogram routers with dd-wrt, does that allow it to do, say, > > > wired bridging even though the manufacturer's formware doesn't allow > > > for that? > > > > openwrt and dd-wrt both allow wired bridging[1] (or pseudo-bridging by > > routing if your wireless hardware doesn't support that). > > > > > > 1: I suppose there might be some network hardware which doesn't support > > actual bridging of wired interfaces, but I've yet to see such an > > example. > > I think the router I've been using for the last few years is one. > Although the User Manual from May 2013¹ has a brief section on > bridging, the June 2014² revision is missing that part. Both have > a "Wireless Repeating" link on the figure for Advanced Wireless > Settings, but the link is not present in the actual configuration > screen on the device. > > In any case, the May 2013 manual says that to use it as a repeater, > even wired, you have to set security to WEP or None. That's no use. > > I wandered into BestBuy and couldn't find much about bridging on > any of their router boxes. (Obviously I'm eschewing so-called > WiFi Wireless Repeaters.) What I'm trying to ascertain is that > all the wired bridging functionality is performed by the software > and not any special hardware in the device. > > Required topology: > > > ╲│╱ ╲│╱ ╲│╱ > ┌───────┐ ┌───────┐ ┌───────┐ > │W L╞ CAT5 │W L╞═PC │ ROKUs │ > [Modem]══╡A A╞═════════════╡A A╞ │ etc │ > │N N╞ │N N╞ └───────┘ > │ ╞═PC │ ╞═PC > └───────┘ └───────┘ > > > ¹ WNDR3400v3_UM_10May2013.pdf > ² WNDR3400v3_UM_19June2014.pdf
I haven't paid attention to this thread from the beginning, but looking at the sketch, I'm wondering what the purpose of the 2nd router is? Why not instead of a router put a switch there, and then (assuming you need another WiFi access point at that position), plug the 2 PCs and a wireless access point (not sure of the right name) into the switch. (That, in essence. is how my local LAN is setup except I have a router with two switches and two wireless access points, each plugged into one of the switches (different parts of the house).
