[OpenWrt-Devel] "3-address Wi-Fi bridging" (was: Multiple Wi-Fi client/AP interfaces on one radio)

David Lang david at lang.hm
Fri Aug 7 01:50:20 EDT 2015


You cannot use both radios on the same channel, or even the same band.

One radio will only work on channels 1-11 and the other will only work on 
channels 36+

pick which band you are going to use to connect to the remote AP and which you 
are going to use to have your clients connect to it.

David Lang

On Fri, 7 Aug 2015, John kerry wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> I have one and i configured as below:
>
> config wifi-device 'wifi0'
>        option type 'qcawifi'
>        option channel 'auto'
>        option macaddr '00:26:75:bd:37:24'
>        option hwmode '11ng'
>        option txpower '16'
>        option htmode 'HT20'
>
> config wifi-iface
>        option device 'wifi0'
>        option network 'lan'
>        option mode 'ap'
>        option ssid 'Test_Ap'
>        option encryption 'psk2'
>        option key 'Test_AP'
>
>
> We can configure one radio only to work like that.
> Something like below:
>
> config wifi-device 'radio0'
>>>                 option type 'mac80211'
>>>                 option channel '11'
>>>                 option hwmode '11g'
>>>                 option path 'platform/ar933x_wmac'
>>>                 option htmode 'HT20'
>>>                 option country 'US'
>>>                 option txpower '20'
>>>
>>>         config wifi-iface 'ap1'
>>>                 option device 'radio0'
>>>                 option mode 'ap'
>>>                 option wds '1'
>>>                 option ssid 'my AP'
>>>                 option network 'lan'
>>>
>>>         config wifi-iface 'mesh1'
>>>                 option device 'radio0'
>>>                 option mode 'mesh'
>>>                 option mesh_id 'my mesh'
>>>                 option network 'lan'
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Weedy <weedy2887 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 6 Aug 2015 23:15, "John kerry" <kerry9842 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>> Could anyone please help me on this to configure the wireless in such a
>> way that when we connect to wireless WAN the LAN SSID should not change.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>
>> You need 2 physical radios.
>>
>
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