Just for fun, I chose Repeater Bridge.
The bridge works, but I cannot figure out how to turn off the DHCP server in the DD-WRT box, so my clients always get a bad DHCP setup from it. If I manually set the IP config, my client talks across the bridge and out just fine.
Anyone see where the "disable DHCP server" config option is hiding?
Mmm..Okay, it does forward the DHCP requests to the far end, which rejects them because the DD-WRT has an "invalid subnet" IP address. So it falls back to serving DHCP itself in that case. Sensible, I suppose, because it does then allow me to connect and fix it. But confusing, too.
Anyway, my fix here, was to just change the static IP of the DD-WRT to be compatible with the subnet at the far end.
My internal net uses 10.0.0.0/24, so I went to
Setup->
Basic Setup and just put 10.0.0.144 into the
Local IP Address field.
It all now works just fine.
You should probably do something similar, if only to prevent the two APs from trying to use the same IP address.. they may both be defaulting to the same value there..
Cheers
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