2012-12-21 - Re: [GRASE-Hotspot] Repeater Problem updated

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From: Drazen <dr***a@radez.hr>
Message Hash: 4caa04b757b790487207126b49e2a4599d5aa4afe02e2280ff6bbb0f4405a654
Message ID: <50D4FB43.5090106@radez.hr>
Reply To: <CA+9ZPKoT356g=miA0gD9c9MBB2B6n6xe2ADp2qA0C4KZDGv4Ww@mail.gmail.com>
UTC Datetime: 2012-12-21 17:13:55 UTC
Raw Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 01:13:55 +0100

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WDS stands for: Wireless Distribution System. WDS defines how multiple 
wireless Access Point or
Wireless Router can connect together to form one single wireless network 
without using
wired uplinks. WDS associate each other by MAC address, each device.
Ok. this is one way. But thing can go without WDS too.
You will need to setup your base radio as pure AP. Not bridged guess.

This setup can be tricky for some radio devices. E.g. I had troubles to 
get repeater functionality using famous linksys 54G router with DDRT 
firmware. At the end gave up on Linksys.

What you need are pure AP devices.

At the moment, I have one repeater link up with two different brand of 
AP devices, One of is pretty old.

Keep in mind the following: This setup below now is working connected 
directly to my internet router, not Grase server. However, this summer 
same setup was working connected to Grase. Just IP addresing changed 
from 10.1.0.0 to 192.168.1.0 including "default gateway" field too. 
Default gateway is Grase of course. (you should omit security as well).

Base station connected to grase (in fact to Internet router at the moment):
* Wireless Configuration*
  Mode 	 AP
  ESSID 	 AP-Dionis
  Channel Number 	 3
  Security 	 WPA-shared key
  BSSID 	 00:11:3b:0c:46:5b
  Associated Clients 	 1
* LAN Configuration*
  IP Address 	 192.168.1.4
  Subnet Mask 	 255.255.255.0
  Default Gateway 	 192.168.1.1
  MAC Address 	 00:11:3b:0c:46:5b




Remote repeater:
System
*Uptime:* 	4day:3h:15m:33s
*Firmware Version:* 	AirMax2_b10d
Wireless
*Mode:* 	Universal Repeater
*Physical Address:* 	00:4f:62:2c:32:27
*Band:* 	2.4 GHz (B+G)
*SSID:* 	AP-DionisR
*Channel Number:* 	3
*Encryption:* 	WPA2
*Associated Clients:* 	0
*BSSID:* 	00:4f:62:2c:32:27
Wireless Repeater Interface Configuration
*Mode:* 	Infrastructure Client
*SSID:* 	AP-Dionis
*Encryption:* 	WPA2
*BSSID:* 	00:11:3b:0c:46:5b
*State:* 	Connected
LAN Configuration
*Connection Method:* 	Fixed IP
*Physical Address:* 	00:4f:62:2c:32:26
*IP Address:* 	192.168.1.3
*Network Mask:* 	255.255.255.0
*Default Gateway:* 	192.168.1.1
*DHCP Server:* 	OFF


Compare this setup with yours. It can vary depends on radio devices and 
software. But some basic things should be the same.

Rgds
Drazen

On 12/21/2012 10:53 PM, Santiago Berniz wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Santiago Berniz <sb***z@gmail.com 
> <mailto:sb***z@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Drezen, thanks for the advice, However, router does not has the
>     Option for WDS.
>     WDS is a bit new for me. Can you please tell me more about the
>     other settings needed? Since on the regular wired router worked
>     fine.. I do not know why would be different on the ubuntu server.
>
>     Thanks again..
>
>
>
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