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Topic: Bridged AP Recipe?

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I am looking to set up a network with some WNDR3700 APs running openwrt using Radius as my authentication source. I already have that piece working, however what I would like to do is enable a bridge between the WAN and LAN interfaces so that my corporate DHCP server can serve addresses to wireless users rather than having them be given out directly from the AP itself.

The issue that I am having is that when I enable the bridge across this interface, I loose all ability to administer the AP as it can not be configured by default from it's WAN interface.

I have taken a look in the Wiki and the Bridged AP Recipe hasn't yet been written. Does anyone around here have an example config that I could look over to get me pointed in the right direction?

Hi,

tysonedwards wrote:

I am looking to set up a network with some WNDR3700 APs running openwrt using Radius as my authentication source. I already have that piece working, however what I would like to do is enable a bridge between the WAN and LAN interfaces so that my corporate DHCP server can serve addresses to wireless users rather than having them be given out directly from the AP itself.

The issue that I am having is that when I enable the bridge across this interface, I loose all ability to administer the AP as it can not be configured by default from it's WAN interface.

To allow Connections on WAN change "option input" for zone "wan" (/etc/config/firefall):

config zone
        option name             wan
        #option input    REJECT
        option input    ACCEPT
        option output   ACCEPT 
        option forward  REJECT
        option masq             1
tysonedwards wrote:

I have taken a look in the Wiki and the Bridged AP Recipe hasn't yet been written. Does anyone around here have an example config that I could look over to get me pointed in the right direction?

Enable bridging on interface "lan" (/etc/config/network):

config 'interface' 'lan'
        option 'type' 'bridge'

Then configure wifi on the bridged lan (/etc/config/wireless)

config wifi-iface
        option device   wl0
        option network  lan
        option mode     ap
        option ssid     myssid
        option encryption psk2
        option key      'dont-tell-this'

Zaptac

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