[SLL] WRT54GL --> wireless to wired repeater?

[Jules Agee]

I wasn't expecting a Christmas gift from the SSL list! This exact
project was on my to-do list for my home network this weekend. I'm sure
you guys just saved me at least a couple hours of research and
fiddling-around time!

Thank you, and happy holidays, everyone!

-Jules

Francois Caen wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Glenn Stone <technoshaman at liawol.org> wrote:
>> Y'all know and love the WRT54GL, and it does quite well at taking somebody's
>> broadband signal in and letting wireless clients connect to it.  I want to
>> turn it around:  Grab a wireless signal, and let wired clients connect to
>> it.  Obviously (I think) the stock firmware won't do this
> 
> You're correct (unless things have changed).
> 
> What you're looking for is a wifi bridge. You could buy one, but the
> good ones are expensive and the cheap ones suck.
> 
> Or you could put openwrt on your wrt54gl like I did, and waste an
> entire weekend figuring out why it doesn't work (answer: bug in the
> arp proxying).
> 
> Or you could learn from my mistake and use dd-wrt, which works as a
> bridge out of the box. The whole project took  a non-linux-savy friend
> of mine under 30 minutes.
> 
> Have fun,

-- 
Jules Agee
System Administrator
Pacific Coast Feather Co.
julesa at pcf.com      x284