[geeks] Cheap wireless APs

Phil Stracchino alaric at metrocast.net
Fri May 22 11:00:15 CDT 2009


Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Fri, 22 May 2009, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> 
>>> So DD-WRT can be set to plain old AP-only mode?
>> You can configure it to effectively do so, yes.  Turn off firewall, turn
>> off DHCP, configure all five Ethernet ports and the WLAN onto the same
>> VLAN, and route all traffic to the real router/DHCP server.
> 
> This has worked with every wireless router^WNAT box I've tried it on, even
> with the factory firmware.

If there's a way to do it with the factory firmware on a WRT54G, I never
managed to find it.


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