[geeks] Cheap wireless APs

[Phil Stracchino]

Joshua Boyd wrote:
> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:05:57AM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> 
>> As it is, my WRT54G, once reflashed with DD-WRT, is doing everything I
>> need it to do.  But it should have been able to do it straight out of
>> the box.  Would it have been so hard to have a configuration option in
>> the factory firmware to run in AP-only mode?
> 
> 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.



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