I think you will get the same result if you disable the dhcp, and connect
all your cables in the LAN ports. Any wifi router should act as an acces
point if you do so.

On 27 June 2010 23:41, Jack Bates <[email protected]> wrote:

> We have an existing LAN and DHCP server - my goal is to provide wifi
> access to it using OpenWrt and a couple WRT54GL wireless routers
>
> We don't actually need routers - just access points - so I want all
> ethernet ports and the wifi interface to be in one VLAN. Wifi clients
> will use our existing DHCP server
>
> I didn't find specific instructions online, so I made this change to the
> default /etc/config/network,
> http://www.sfu.ca/~jdbates/tmp/openwrt/201006270/patch
>
> I dropped all "config switch*" stanzas, dropped the "wan" interface
> stanza, and reconfigured the "lan" interface stanza with ifname "eth0"
> and "proto dhcp" (this way the access point also gets its IP from our
> existing DHCP server)
>
> It seems to be working great - is this the best way to accomplish what I
> describe?
>
> I'm running Backfire (10.03) brcm47xx and it seems to be working great -
> thanks OpenWrt!
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