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For a large network where the DD-WRT router does not provide suitable network core, Wireless Access Point (WAP or just 'AP') allows wireless clients to be a part of the larger network. In this case, clients normally get DHCP configuration from the gateway or some other DHCP server, and could be accessed by other clients on the network (if allowed).
Linking routers by Ethernet cables does not require DD-WRT on any router. However, some more advanced settings are available in DD-WRT. As an example, some colleges still allow students to have their own WAP. They require that the WAPs not lease private IP addresses (like a gateway configuration with DHCP/NAT) because it makes it difficult to track down which client is causing problems (e.g. virus infections, trojans, worms, etc.)
Vendors such as Linksys typically charge more for devices which work as standalone WAPs because routers are typically used by home users and WAPs are more popular for businesses. With DD-WRT you can buy a device marketed as a router and use it as a WAP.
If you want a secondary router to be on a separate subnet from the primary, just hard reset the router and set the router's IP to, e.g., 192.168.5.1 on the basic setup page. Then set security and SSID on the Wireless tab, hit Save then Apply, and finally plug the LAN cable from your primary to the WAN of the second router.
If you wish to be able to access your secondary router from devices on your primary LAN, enable Web GUI management in the Remote Access section of the Administration/Management page. You should then be able to access the secondary router by typing in its WAN IP. Setting up a static lease for the second router's WAN interface in Services on the first router will allow you to always know where the second one is to access it. This is the usual router/gateway mode, which is NOT the main goal of this Wiki.
A secondary router on the same subnet, so all wireless and wired network devices can access each other.
On the secondary access point router:
Side note-If you want to have clients on one router isolated from those on the main router, you need to use iptables rules to do this fully. However, following the above 'Separate Subnet' instructions will achieve this.
Now, the main how to: Pay special attention to the Review section of this article, especially if you are using an older version.
There were three basic configuration changes you made to set up your router as a wireless access point.
If you did not turn off DHCP, when you plug your router into the network (after configuration), your WAP may provide IP addresses to clients on the wired network, and this may be inappropriate. Tracking down problems caused by multiple DHCP servers can be time-consuming and difficult.
Because it's so important, it is worth repeating: Turn off DHCP before you continue!
Immediately after turning off DHCP, while your PC still has the IP address the WAP gave you, set the LAN interface of the WAP to the IP address you want it to use, e.g., if the host router is 192.168.1.1, give the WAP an IP of 192.168.1.2. Alternatively, you can use the instructions below to set the WAP's IP address via DHCP.
If you cannot connect to the WAP in order to set the LAN interface's IP address, it is probably because your computer no longer has an IP address on the same subnet. To get past this issue, simply set your computer's IP address and subnet to 192.168.1.8 and 255.255.255.0 respectively. (This assumes you are still using the default settings. If not, change the IP address and subnet as appropriate) You should now be able to point your browser at 192.168.1.1 (again assuming default settings).
There are two ways to connect your WAP to the LAN. You can either Uplink through one of the router's LAN ports, or use the WAN port that is normally connected to the cable/DSL modem.
To complete the link between the two routers, connect a LAN port on the central router, to a LAN port on Linksys router (to be used as your WAP). You may need a crossover cable to do this, although many modern routers have automatic polarity sensing. To test this, connect a standard Ethernet cable between the two routers. If the LAN light comes on, the router has automatically switched the polarity and a crossover cable is not required.
If you use your DD-WRT router as a WAP only, you may use your DD-WRT router's WAN port to connect it to your existing LAN. To do this, you need to disable the Internet Connection and 'Assign WAN Port to Switch'.
Normally, the router does Layer 3 IP routing. but by 'Assigning WAN Port to Switch,' your DD-WRT router will bypass that functionality and just pass on the Layer 2 ethernet packets from your wired network to the wireless network and vice versa.
Alternatively, if you have a router that supports assigning the WAN port to the switch:
Setup -> Basic Setup -> Internet Connection Type -> Connection Type = Disabled
Setup -> Basic Setup -> Network Setup -> WAN Port -> Assign WAN Port to Switch
you can connect the WAN port as your uplink to your main router. All this really buys you is an extra port (4 available instead of 3), but why not?
If you are installing additional Access Points to cover a broader area with Wi-Fi access, it is possible to allow clients to roam freely between them. The common method is to use the same SSID and Security settings on each access point. The clients control when to switch in between APs. Most clients will switch when they see a more powerful AP available but some client radios are not able to listen for a new AP when connected to an existing AP and as a result those clients will not roam to the new AP until they completely lose signal from the old one. A typical roaming transition from one AP to the other takes about 50ms if using simple authentication (open or WPA2 PSK AES)
Use a different channel on each AP. e.g. if you are in the US and installed two access points, use channels #1 and #11. Or if three access points, then use channels #1, #6, and #11 (setting the channels at least 5 apart should help keep interference between APs to a minimum). If you have a residential gateway with wireless turned on, and just one AP, then the same applies: each gets a different channel. If you are in Europe, use channels 1, 5, 9 & 13.
When using multiple Access Points, each one should be connected by LAN to LAN uplink as described above. They can even be attached to different switches within the same organization.
Access Point placements need to be carefully done. If the APs are too far away then there will be holes in the coverage and the clients will drop off when going from one AP to the other. If the APs are too close then clients will 'stick' to one AP while moving out of its region and into another's. If the APs are too close and moving them farther apart is not practical then the transmit power on each AP can be reduced.
You can also try setting the APs to use the same channel. This will halve bandwidth when both APs are talking to clients but it may help clients that have problems sticking to one AP.
It can also be helpful to disable the slower 802.11 transfer rates with the Wl_command#rateset command for example:
This sets the minimum access to 18Mbit and clients will drop off as the signal level falls below what's needed to support this.
There are additional considerations with roaming using wireless VoIP gear, and WPA Enterprise modes. These environments require additional authentication from the client that could exceed the TCP/IP TTL and cause a disconnection of a higher level application such as the VoIP client. Because of that, the IEEE 802.11r-2008 protocol, a.k.a. Fast Transition (FT), was developed. DD-WRT does not currently support 802.11r FT but there is support for it in OpenWRT. The wireless client must also support Fast Roaming for this protocol for it to work; typically it will be cell phones that support it.
Note: This step is optional. Having the WAP's IP address set by a DHCP server is not required. It can be made static, as shown above.
Note also that the steps below assume a DHCP server is running outside this DD-WRT WAP box on the LAN (e.g., in the FAI DSL box/gateway), so, keep this internal DD-WRT WAP DHCP server disabled as stated above, as well as all other settings.
It is not possible to set the LAN interface to get its IP address via DHCP using the web configuration interface. You can, however, set your startup script to obtain an IP address.
Simply set your IP address to (starting DHCP client):
Only the two first lines are required if you don't want your WAP to set its name based on the IP address it gets. However, if you want to save a configuration file which will apply to several WAPs, that can be a handy feature.
EDIT 2013/09/19:If you leave the 'Local DNS' GUI field to 0.0.0.0, then the WAP will use the DNS supplied by DHCP. To be functional, this requires the 'Gateway' is set too. So, you also wish the gateway to be assigned by DHCP too. You do it appending
after the udhcpc command in the script. You will leave the unused Basic/Network Setup/'Gateway' GUI field to 0.0.0.0, or, to get a GUI feedback of the currently assigned wan_gateway nvram value, have this field filled by the value of the nvram lan_gateway value by setting this last the same way as the one below for wds_watchdog_ips.
Then you may want the optional WDS/Connection Watchdog to ping the gateway it just got from DHCP: just enable the watchdog in the GUI, set the wanted delay to have the WAP monitor the connection to the gateway, leave the IP's field blank, append the following 4 lines after the route add ... command above, so that they will fill it in for you and the watchdog will help your WAP to follow any change of the gateway IP address (as long as the previous gateway IP is no longer used. You can work around the case when the previous IP is reused for another purpose with a reboot on URL ping failure custom script plus the cron job that triggers it in the GUI Management tab, but if the gateway loses its WAN connection, the WAP's wireless clients may lose their wireless connection at the same rhythm the WAP reboots. To prevent this, think to ping both external(s) URL(s) and internal IP(s) and make the custom script to reboot the WAP when all pings fail - this will preserve internal connections in the case the Internet is lost at the gateway WAN side).
The if tests below are just here to preserve the nvram service life with no rewrite when not needed on boot. Even the WAP's ip will survive over reboots thanks to a static lease - this applies to other scripts.
Once you have manually set the router & hostname name fields, you should set the DHCP startup script this way:
The whole ip/mask/gateway will show correctly in the Settings web GUI page.
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