Openwrt wds setup

MAC address — device specific address, not easily changeable. The first step is to know what chipset your routers use, specifically the manufacturer. For WDS to work reliably the routers must be all the same chip manufacturer. A good way to determine the chip manufacturer is to go to the Status page and read what CPU Model it has.

Ex: Archer A7 v5. There is an unsupported, unsecure no wireless security or WEP method to connect a Broadcom main router with a Qualcomm Atheros secondary router. This will be discussed further down. If the signal is strong enough, 5ghz is the best back-haul signal choice since you'll get more bandwidth. Use any number outside of the DHCP range default range is It is easier to have hardwired access to both routers when setting this up.

Step 1 a : Optional, but advised Reset to default all of the routers if possible. Do not restore settings, you can make a backup if you wish.

Change the filename of the back up to match the router and record the build revision. These can be restored if the new setup doesn't work, to quickly revert to the previous working configuration.

Optional Reset the host router also, unless impractical e. Also enable STP. If the host router has been reset, set its Local IP Address as well. This allows the host to perform DHCP services. There can only be one DHCP server on any subnet network for reliable operation. In the dropdown box for Operating Mode, Select Router. Click Save. If you encounter areas with low coverage try to re-positioning the router.

One last words: do the measurements at times where you plan to use the router. Working hours, non-working hours, … Because channels saturation change over the day. Kabel Deutschland a larger ISP in Germany provides Internet connectivity through cable modems on standard cable television infrastructure. Thus a cable modem is provided by the provider. The later is the minimum which is required to fulfills the requirements. It do no allow me to group the network into routing areas subnetting - which is bad.

Kabel Deutschland provides a mode to switch the modem - and the infrastructure behind - into a so called bridge mode. Reading forums I realized quickly that Kabel Deutschland do not provide any IPv6 connectivity if the router is switched in bridge mode.

To sum up KDs default modem setup:. This is not ideal because you will do NAT at least two time: in the OpenWrt box and in the cable modem. The other solution is to use the bridge mode and use the provided public IPv4 address and setup a IPv6 tunnel. The biggest advantage of this solution is probably a working port forwarding without headache and IPv6 addresses and IPv6 subnetting. So the following setup using KD bridge mode. So the reboot is probably what you should do from time to time if you change several files.

Just to make sure that a configuration bug is not hidden. Now check the connection after reconfiguration, ping a IPv6 host:. Sometimes I stumbled over some misbehavior causing that the tunnel come not up properly. Note that radvd is not used since Barrier Breaker, For more IPv6 related configuration you should check the wiki.

Maybe it is time to reboot now. To get a fresh network configuration on your client system you can remove all IP addresses via sudo ip a flush dev DEV. Now wait until the router rebooted and all IP addresses are assigned. Lets check the IP addresses on the client system:. To make sure every works you can now ping from any computer in the network a IPv6 host somewhere in the world:. One concern about IPv6 tunnel are increased delay and reduced throughput.

The following image illustrates the measured ping RTT from a client in my network to heise. As a requirement for IPSec, VPN or other home network related operations like file hosting at home you need to know the actual IP address of your router. My network addressing for IPv4 is dynamic: my provider will renew the public IPv4 address from time to time, at least if I reboot the router.

Thus I can directly communicate via IPv6 with my router if required. To communicate via IPv6 to any host in my home network I am forced to assigned a static IPv6 address to the host s. This contradicts efforts to use privacy generated pseudo random IPv6 addresses. The provider then update the corresponding DNS entries.

The mechanism is more complex, required DNS tooling and most important a cryptographic secured infrastructure. There are many providers in the market offers DynDNS services. Probably you already have one.

The guys from Hurricane Electric HE are professional, know what the crowd wants and do a perfect job! The next paragraphs describes the setup procedure for HE and assumes you already have a domain name and want to use them by simple delegating a sub domain to HE. Imagine your registrar is named FooBar and you already registered example. But you want to use this domain also to access your home network. The way to go is to add another subdomain and change the DNS responsibilities for this subdomain.

Next, transfer the nameserver authority for this domain to HE. This is normally done in a web based administration panel from your registrar FooBar. After the change you should see the modifications in the DNS database:.

Before doing any actual configuration, the Wi-Fi interface must be enabled in order to scan for networks in the vicinity:. Now we can list networks in range using iw dev wlan0 scan , substituting your actual wireless interface for wlan0 if different ifconfig lists all available interfaces to find how your wlan is called.

The device was configured to connect to the one called Violetta. These are the uci values that were added or changed by the configuration procedure. For an explanation of why these values were changed, please read the luci tutorial above. Please note that the Wi-Fi network generated by the device in this example the one called OpenWrt has no password nor encryption. This was done because the focus of this article was getting the relay bridge up and running. You will likely want to set up your device's Wi-Fi network in a more secure way, as explained in the Wi-Fi setup page here.

The alternative is tedious: It is possible to access the OpenWrt box via its Issue the following commands:. We suppose that you created a wwan interface when you joined to the other Wi-Fi network as suggested earlier in this guide; otherwise, change the dhcp. That's it.

This method basically puts a second Wi-Fi router in cascade on the first one; i. It's like connecting with a cable the WAN port on the Wi-Fi extender to the LAN ports of the main router, the Wi-Fi extender creates a new network for itself and the devices connected to it, that can go on the Internet and reach devices in the LAN network of the main router. But in this case we are doing it with wireless networks instead. Show pagesource Old revisions Backlinks Back to top. Using relayd as instructed in this article isn't guaranteed to work.

Set LAN protocol as static address. Assign an IP address in a different subnet e. You may need to reboot your device before the Relay bridge option appears. After you have done this, it might be necessary to reboot the Wi-Fi extender.