Help setting up DD-WRT Client Bridge

[Scratch1]

Hey Guys

Just wondering you any of you have any helpful suggestions on how to resolve my Client Bridge set up woes.

Im attempting to connect my xbox in my living room through to the household primary ADSL router wirelessly through an addition wireless router setup as a wireless client bridge.

The primary ADSL router is a Billion BiPAC 7401VGP (with the standard mweb locked firmware) and the the client bridge router is a TP-Link TL-WR741ND successfully flashed with DD-WRT V24.

I seem to be able to set up a wireless association between the client bridge router and the primary ADSL router, however within the primary adsl router's wireless associations tab shows that there is an 'unknown ip' address linked to the client bridge MAC address. As a result I am not able to ping the primary router through the client bridge router. Both routers’ firewalls have been disabled and I am fairly certain that it has nothing to do with the wireless security encryption as i have attempted the set up on a unsecured wireless setup as well.

Do you guys think that this is this a case of incompatible wireless chipsets (I would think not)? or do you have any other configuration suggestions.

Thank you in advance for your assistance

 

[feo]

I originally setup my two routers at home (Netgear DG834GT and Linksys WRT54G with DDWRT) as the primary and wireless bridge respectively and simply followed a tutorial on how to flash to DD WRT and then which settings to change to setup the wireless bridge.

I remember googling for "xbox 360 diy wirless access point" and the tutorial will show up near the top.

Do you have DHCP enabled on the primary? If so, make sure it dishes out IPs from about 192.168.0.5 and upwards... (or whatever the local IP range is e.g. 10.0.0.5 and up)

 

[feo]

http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorial...WRT-Tutorial-3-Building-a-Wireless-Bridge.htm

I think I may have used this tutorial and also the DD WRT wiki as well.

 

[Scratch1]

Hi Feo

The primary router's DHCP server is enabled, and the client bridge router is set to DHCP forwarding. I have tried setting to the DHCP range starting at 192.168.1.5 but still no luck. Out of interest, what is the reasoning behind setting the starting range at .5?

I have tried both the dd-wrt wiki as well as the link above previously. I cant quite understand why the client bridge has an unknown ip address within primary router's wireless association, especially seeing as i though the client bridge has a static ip address assigned to it. (FYI both ips are within the same subnet mask)

 

[feo]

I'm not at my PC now but when I get home I'll try to refresh my memory and get back to you.

I did this ages ago and also ran into snags when doing it but it works like a charm once you get it up.

You can choose any number, not just 5, I think the reason is that you don't get IP conflicts.

FYI, I had this setup running on my 360 and had zero issues with NAT being moderate.

I'll get back to you.

 

[feo]

What other options are there besides DHCP forwarding?

 

[feo]

OK, DHCP must be disabled on the bridge router. That's how it is on mine currently...

If your primary router's IP is e.g. 192.168.0.1, set your bridge's IP to 192.168.0.2 and in the DD WRT UI set the gateway to 192.168.0.1, same address for DNS.

Is this how yours is set up?

 

[Scratch1]

yes that is my the current ip config in the client bridge router. I suspect that the problem maybe in the primary router, because i have basically exhausted all other options. I have disabled the firewalls & encryption in both routers, do you know of any other reason why an AP would not assign an IP address to a wireless client? Thanks for the help Feo, much appreciated.

 

[feo]

Well the wireless client is supposed to have a static IP...

Have you tried another (better brand) router as the primary to see if that works?

 

[Scratch1]

ja i think that that might have to be my next step.