is this possible? i'm trying to set up a old linksys wrt54gs router as a bridge for my 2 wire dsl wireless gateway. i updated the linksys firmware to dd-wrt and configured the settings according to wiki, but i'm unable to make this work. any network experts in the house?
Yes, but make sure the Wirless router and the DSL modem don't have the same IP. Quest loves to put the DSL router IP to 192.168.1.1 and so does linksys so there tends to be a conflict.
That would actually be easier to set up, but I get all sorts of wonky issues when I try to use the linksys as a DSL router.
They are assigned different IP's. The IP, subnet mask, gateway, wireless settings look good, but it won't connect. I think it might not be working because I don't know how to configure this part of the router side (2wire) correctly; Router If you are not able to ping the ROUTER from a computer connected to the CLIENT, then you may have MAC address filtering enabled on the ROUTER and your security settings may be incorrect. For the former problem, make sure that you add the MAC address of the CLIENT as well as the MAC address of the computer connected to the CLIENT to the MAC filter list. In fact, the best thing to do right now is to temporarily turn off MAC address filtering. Also, at this stage since the CLIENT and all devices/computers hooked up to it are on the 192.168.2.* subnet while your ROUTER is on the 192.168.1.* subnet, you will most likely not be able to ping the CLIENT or any computer connected to the CLIENT. In order to fix that, you need to setup a static route to the 192.168.2.* network so your ROUTER knows how to forward traffic to that network. 1. Connect to the ROUTER's admin app, 192.168.1.1 typically 2. Select Setup > Advanced Routing 3. Set Advanced Routing.Operating Mode = Gateway 4. Set Advanced Routing.Select Set Number = 1 5. Set Advanced Routing.Enter Route Name = BRIDGE (or any name you fancy) 6. Set Advanced Routing.Destination LAN IP = 192.168.2.0 (the last octet must be 0 and the third octet must be the same as your CLIENT's local IP's third octet) 7. Set Advanced Routing.Subnet Mask = 255.255.255.0 8. Set Advanced Routing.Default Gateway = 192.168.1.2 (same as your CLIENT's ROUTER facing IP, i.e. Client setup Step 3, #3 above) 9. Set Advanced Routing.Interface = LAN & WIRELESS 10. Click Save Settings button 11. Click on Show Routing Table button and it should look something like:
