Re: Multiple Wireless AP working together?

[Richard Malcolm-Smith <rich@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Tony Butler wrote:

>>I have this setup with two Linksys WRT54GS units.
>
>
> Do you know if it's possible with the linksys and another make - I
have the
> above, plus a draytek router with wireless 802.11g and I would like to
use
> the wireless side also to increase coverage in the house.
> Do they need to sit on different channels, or can they be both on the
same
> channel but with some sort of funky setup to get them to work
together?

Possibly, but as far as im aware the linksys with the sveasoft firmware is
the
only that will do spanning tree with bridging, the others requre you make
sure
that you dont set up any circular bridging so you may run into issues if
you get
more then 1 hanging off the AP in the draytek, and thats if it even works
at all.

WDS is only standardised as far as the actual transmitted frames, the
attaching
to another AP to set the link up is not, that is why you have to put a
remote
bridge mac address in on most accesspoints. Sveasofts firmware has an
easywds
that seems to set some of it up for you, but I have not tried that as I
only
have one wrt54gs accesspoint, and its being used at the moment.




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