roaming with multiple wired AP's?
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 5:05 pm
Howdy,
I have a big old house and a barn that I am trying to get internet into. I have on the Buffalo hi power AP's set up with Gargoyle and we have some dead sports.
My first thought was to go to deaextreme and pick up a 2W amp for the AP but that would cost me a few bucks.
It was not too hard to run a wire up to the second floor where the dead sports are, and I got a WRT54G V2 sans power cube from the local freecycle.
The plan was to have the cable modem go into the Buffalo routers WAN port, have the Buffalo router set up as a gateway with a DHCP server and NAT and all that, then run a wire from one of the LAN ports on the buffalo router up to the second floor into the WAN port of the Linksys.
The second floor Linksys would be set up to bridge the wired network on the WAN with the wirelesss network on the second floor.
As soon as I turn the bridging mode on I get the client bridge mode and this all sounds like it wants to bridge the two networks via wireless and that is not what I am after. Ideally I want to turn off the DHCP and NAT and firewall on the Linksys router as all of those services will be provided by the Buffalo router in front of it.
Is there a semi easy way to do this?
Rumor has it that if the ssid's and the keys are the same than clients can roam between the AP's.
Any thoughts?
I have a big old house and a barn that I am trying to get internet into. I have on the Buffalo hi power AP's set up with Gargoyle and we have some dead sports.
My first thought was to go to deaextreme and pick up a 2W amp for the AP but that would cost me a few bucks.
It was not too hard to run a wire up to the second floor where the dead sports are, and I got a WRT54G V2 sans power cube from the local freecycle.
The plan was to have the cable modem go into the Buffalo routers WAN port, have the Buffalo router set up as a gateway with a DHCP server and NAT and all that, then run a wire from one of the LAN ports on the buffalo router up to the second floor into the WAN port of the Linksys.
The second floor Linksys would be set up to bridge the wired network on the WAN with the wirelesss network on the second floor.
As soon as I turn the bridging mode on I get the client bridge mode and this all sounds like it wants to bridge the two networks via wireless and that is not what I am after. Ideally I want to turn off the DHCP and NAT and firewall on the Linksys router as all of those services will be provided by the Buffalo router in front of it.
Is there a semi easy way to do this?
Rumor has it that if the ssid's and the keys are the same than clients can roam between the AP's.
Any thoughts?