Wireless Bridge - DHCP not working! HELP

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My Xbox 360 is sitting in my lounge and my main router (Netgear DG834GT) is sitting in my bedroom. Now I need to connect to Xbox Live but I'm not gonna run CAT5 cable throughout my house so what I did was find a second hand Linksys WRT54G router with DD-WRT firmware, gonna use it as a wireless bridge and connect it to the Xbox 360.

Let's call my main router NETGEAR and let's call the secondary router (connected to the 360) LINKSYS.

Now I'm a networking n00b so I must've missed something here. Firstly, here is the tutorial I'm using to get the bridge up and running. All the steps went smoothly: disabled DHCP on LNKSYS, LINKSYS found the NETGEAR wireless network, connected to it fine, the only thing not working is that the laptop that I currently have connected to LINKSYS isn't receiving an IP from NETGEAR. It gives me that "Limited or no connectivity" message in the taskbar.

I've switch off Wireless security on both routers and MAC address filtering is off as well.

Please help me out here, any suggestions?
 
Great tutorial:).

I've never managed to get a bridge to work [possibly because my secondary router did not have DD-WRT firmware].

Have you set the laptop to receive ip/dns automatically?
 
AirWolf said:
Great tutorial:).

I've never managed to get a bridge to work [possibly because my secondary router did not have DD-WRT firmware].

Have you set the laptop to receive ip/dns automatically?
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Well, going to Control Panel > Network Connections > TCP/IP > Properties, everything is set to automatically get IPs.
 
AirWolf said:
Are you still connected by cable or connecting wirelessly to the 2nd router?

[Is it just me or is the forum damn slow right now?:o]
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I'm connected by cable to LINKSYS which, in turn, is connected wirelessly to the NETGEAR main router.
 
OK, I have no idea what I did but it's working now.

I think I missed a step (not mentioned in the tutorial I linked to in my OP) that the IP address of the secondary router should be on the same subnet as the primary router, in my case NETGEAR had an IP of 192.168.0.1 while LINKSYS had an IP od 192.168.1.1 which according to another tutorial was not correct. I changed it to 192.168.0.2 and set the default gateway and DNS server to 192.168.0.1 and it worked!
 
feo said:
OK, I have no idea what I did but it's working now.

I think I missed a step (not mentioned in the tutorial I linked to in my OP) that the IP address of the secondary router should be on the same subnet as the primary router, in my case NETGEAR had an IP of 192.168.0.1 while LINKSYS had an IP od 192.168.1.1 which according to another tutorial was not correct. I changed it to 192.168.0.2 and set the default gateway and DNS server to 192.168.0.1 and it worked!
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Actually it does mention it;):

Technically, the DD-WRT supports two methods of connecting a wired device (or devices) to a wireless network: wireless client mode and wireless bridge mode.

In either mode, you have a primary router and a secondary router. In wireless client mode, devices connected to the secondary router are contained within their own subnet, separate from the subnet for devices connected to the primary router. You don’t want this.

In wireless bridge mode, all devices connected to either router are contained within one happy unified subnet – as if they were all connected to a single router. This is good.
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The tutorial steps do not however mention anything about the IP on the second router, and I assumed it got assigned an IP by the first router.
 
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