2018-01-03 - Re: [GRASE-Hotspot] Repeater over AP on grase hotspot

Header Data

From: Bob Hunt <bo***2@gmail.com>
Message Hash: b34c55ee00af2081821c7160780c3aa460f5b824ee9bf2d168eba6a0348dff0b
Message ID: <CAA-jMMTb3ODt3W7BV+MSReOt=afuxfR30YMFYgcz3ozg0y1qRQ@mail.gmail.com>
Reply To: <9f62ebc1-9fc9-40ce-b604-6e3765f5f2dc@grasehotspot.org>
UTC Datetime: 2018-01-03 18:27:41 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2018 12:27:41 +1100

Raw message 

Hi Gerard,

This may be the same problem that I encountered using Grase over my mesh
network. The solution was to setup the mac addresses of all the repeater
nodes with computer accounts on the Grase server, so that Grase allows
traffic from those nodes.

Cheers,

Bob


Bob Hunt
20 Clarke Street
Wyndham, NSW, Australia, 2550

Phone: Landline 0264942030  Voip 0264368018  Mobile 0424472618

On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 12:19 PM, Gerard Pacete <ge***1@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi, we are an educational institution and just recently we decided to put
> up a portal for our network. We setup grase hotspot v3 and we found it very
> helpful in a way that we need it.
> But, now that we want to expand the network to cater wider area, we came
> into issues of setting up a repeater for our wireless access points.
>
> Scenario:
> 1 PC running ubuntu with grase hotspot installed.
> 1 wifi router(setup as access point, where one router LAN is connected to
> uam_eth, DHCP is disabled on this router).
> 1 wireless repeater to repeat the wifi network from our wireless AP
>
> Problem:
> - If a client connects through the extended wifi signal(repeater), it is
> able to get IP from the DHCP server(grase hotspot) but it is not able to
> get through to connect to portal.
> If we remove the repeater, there is no problem at all.
>
> What we have done so far:
> - We already tried to use different models of routers and AP to run the
> WiFi AP and also tried several repeater models but all of them are having
> the same issues.
> - We tried to make a router(DHCP enabled) and connect it to grase hotspot
> and repeat the signal, repeater have no issues but we cannot make each of
> clients on WiFi be controlled by grase hotspot server.
>
> Is there any problem with our setup? or is there any better setup that i
> can try with?
>
> Thanks and best regards to all.
>
> --
> This mailing list is for the Grase Hotspot Project http://grasehotspot.org
> ---
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
> "Grase Hotspot" group.
> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an
> email to gr***e@grasehotspot.org.
> To post to this group, send email to gr***t@grasehotspot.org.
> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/a/
> grasehotspot.org/group/grase-hotspot/.
> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/
> grasehotspot.org/d/msgid/grase-hotspot/9f62ebc1-9fc9-
> 40ce-b604-6e3765f5f2dc%40grasehotspot.org
> <https://groups.google.com/a/grasehotspot.org/d/msgid/grase-hotspot/9f62ebc1-9fc9-40ce-b604-6e3765f5f2dc%40grasehotspot.org?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>
> .
>

Thread