I am setting up a two radio repeater for a distant client to our
system.

I have had a router at the distant site acting as an ethernet bridge
for some time, so that setup is working fine.

But now they want wifi there, so I'm adding a 3rd. device to the chain
(stock WRT54G v4) to act as a local AP. Should be easy as pie to tack
an AP on the end of the chain, but what I thought was the obvious
setup did not work, i.e., could not ping the ethernet bridge I was
cabled to.

I'm a little rusty at the moment, so I thought it might be quickest to
just ask for setup comments. I have not seen much online about this
setup.


Existing setup:

#0 Hughes Modem with DHCP

cabled to WAN port of:

#1 Router/AP = (Buffalo HP DD-WRT) 192.168.1.1 Gateway, DHCP on
WPA

communcates with:

#2 Client Ethernet Adapter - (Linksys WRT54G v4 DD-WRT) 192.168.1.2
DHCP off Ethernet out from LAN port

cabled to WAN(??) port of :

#3 AP (Linksys WRT54G v4 stock firmware)



Question is setup for #3 - the AP

1) Should I go into the WAN or LAN for the AP?

2) DHCP on the AP? on or off ?

3) Local IP? I picked 192.168.1.3

4) Should I give it a WAN IP or automatic?

5) Gateway mode or router mode?

6) what else? oh yes, firewall off, right? forgot that yesterday

7) Am I trying to do something that linksys fw won't do? Seems like it
should, but I'll flash it with DD-WRT if needed.


I started with a reset obviously, and security off. I have no issue
connecting the bridge, that has been working for some time. It's just
getting the AP to work at the end of the chain. I suppose it would be
best if #1, the DHCP router could hand out addys, but it's not
critical.


Thanks,
Steve