[Wylug-help] Wireless networking and Linux

[Dan Walker]

On Tuesday 27 Sep 2005 16:03, gARetH baBB wrote:
> I haven't looked for a bit, especially at the variants, but AFAICR the
> "stock" OpenWRT doesn't support WDS repeating.

It does; that's what the 'hackaday' link was for.

> What you want is a plain bridging AP which does WDS repeating, ie. 99.9%
> of them now-a-days.

I'm not sure that he does. I think the topology is

ADSL )===[Linux box]==[Wireless] -- -- -- -- -- [Wireless]==[Downstairs box]

(where equals signs are wires and hyphens wireless)

so I'm not sure WDS is what's needed - doesn't WDS extend the range of an 
existing router rather than bridge two wireless networks?


Apologies if I've misunderstood.


Dan

> If you want a recommendation, then the Netgear wg602v2 - it will also
> bridge the Ethernet interface in WDS mode, which many earlier ones (eg.
> Netgear ME103) didn't.
>
> You can't repeat WPA/802.1x, only plain/WEP.
>
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