Background
I want to use OpenWRT in to enhance a relatively week signal in one part of the house. The FritzBox router is located far away, and must stay at the top floor. I can't use cables.
Partial Solution
I am following the Routed AP Guide [1] in the OpenWRT wiki, but I can't get my clients from the lan I am setting to ping WWW. So here is what I have:
Fritz!box which I am only allowed to have the WPA key to it. The box issues IP's in the range: 192.168.178.0/255 (ESSID: "FRITZ!Box")
My OpenWRT router (with Atheros Chip) with Backfire (10.03.1, r29592). My router is giving DHCP with the range: 192.168.1.127.
Observations
Before, I followed the guide, I entered the GUI and connected the Router via Wifi->Join to the LAN network of the FRITZ!Box. The client connect to OpenWRT has the address 192.168.1.128, and can access WWW. From the OpenWrt shell I can also ping WWW.
After Issuing the instructions in the guide, replacing the correct IP addresses where needed. I restart everything as said, and I can connect to the new WLAN established with the name TEST.
From my single client in that WLAN with the new IP 192.168.178.229 I can now ping the Fritz!Box at 192.168.178.1 and my OpenWRT at 192.168.178.40.
However, I can't access WWW from client (192.168.178.229) or the OpenWRT router.
One, more observation, which might help solving my problem: I have a bridge defined (by the automatic tools, i didn't add it...).
br-lanroot@OpenWrt:~# ifconfig
br-lan Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:24:A5:D8:0E:0D
inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6665 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5088 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:604264 (590.1 KiB) TX bytes:1095085 (1.0 MiB)
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:24:A5:D8:0E:0D
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:7976 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:91937 frame:0
TX packets:6272 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:847585 (827.7 KiB) TX bytes:1656757 (1.5 MiB)
Interrupt:4
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:24:A5:D8:0E:0E
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:5
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:1102 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1102 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:79550 (77.6 KiB) TX bytes:79550 (77.6 KiB)
mon.wlan0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-24-A5-D8-0E-0D-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:11079 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:32
RX bytes:2462537 (2.3 MiB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:24:A5:D8:0E:0D
inet addr:192.168.178.40 Bcast:192.168.178.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:927 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:840 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:32
RX bytes:115706 (112.9 KiB) TX bytes:187458 (183.0 KiB)Question
What prevents my packets from going from my new WLAN "TEST" to the old WLAN "FRITZ!Box" ?
[1]http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/recipes/routedap
(Last edited by oz123 on 8 Aug 2012, 20:09)