Bridging with SWEEX LC000070?

[Paul]

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We have two Sweex wireless routers, type nr. LC00070. According to the
manual (see
http://www.sweexeurope.com/media/manuals/LC000070_man_eng_full.pdf page 26)
it is possible to configure these as bridge and access points
simultaneously. I spent almost a whole day unsucsessfully making this
happen. Did you succeed? Any good tips really appreciated!!

 

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Hi Paul,

If you mean WDS with the default Sweex firmware, yes it's possible ( I know
the docs are pretty abysmal for them-actually they're the worst I've ever
seen ). Buy cheap-get cheap.
Additionally, the MAC addresses on them ( at least the ones I've seen ) are
the WAN MAC addresses not the AP MAC addresses which are the ones you need
to use.
Two ways to find the AP MACs.
ping each of your routers and then look at the arp cache ( arp -a on
Windoze ). or
Download/run Netstumbler (if you're running Windoze) - gives you the same
info and alot more besides.

Then basically,
1-Change the IP of one of your routers.
2-Make the SSIDs unique.
3-Make sure they're using the same channel.
4-Dsiable DHCP on the bridge.
5-Enable WDS on both routers specifying the AP Macs.
6-Enable MAC Address Control ( you only need to specify association for the
WDS link ).
7-Enable WEP/WPA.

As to the merits of WDS - I was educated by a certain "Jeff" in here fairly
recently. He's the kind of guy you may want to listen to (see the thread
"Extending a wireless network" in here).

HTH

Rgds, S

"Paul" <paul_joosten.no@spam.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> We have two Sweex wireless routers, type nr. LC00070. According to the
> manual (see
> http://www.sweexeurope.com/media/manuals/LC000070_man_eng_full.pdf page
> 26) it is possible to configure these as bridge and access points
> simultaneously. I spent almost a whole day unsucsessfully making this
> happen. Did you succeed? Any good tips really appreciated!!
>