Coova DHCP and DD-Wrt Repeater Bridge configuration

[Henk Kleynhans]

They'd be NAT'ted if using wireless Client-Bridge, but shouldn't be when
using WDS.
The big question is: Why is WDS not working as it should be in CoovaAP?
(Can't SSH, Ping, etc, as you could with DD-WRT)

Henk


On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 8:53 AM, wlanmac <wlan at mac.com> wrote:

> Then, the issues isn't that chilli is handling DHCP wrongly. The real
> issue is that your subscribers are NAT'ed (in layer 2) such that chilli
> would not see the true MAC of the subscriber. This is fundamentally a
> problem with chilli - even if DHCP was operating as you expected.
>
> I believe 'sweetspot' might be more what you are looking for. From what
> I understand, it is like chilli only for layer 3.
>
>
> On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 23:18 +0100, Iacopo Spalletti wrote:
> > Alle 17:23 di giovedì 26 marzo 2009, wlanmac ha scritto:
> > > I haven't confirmed your statement that coova-chilli takes the ethernet
> > > source over the client-mac (though probably true). But, isn't the point
> > > of the bridge that the request's ethernet source is that of the
> > > subscriber? If so, then what is the problem exactly?
> >
> > While WDS bridge is completely transparent (i.e. ethernet frames across
> bridge
> > maintains original source mac-address), as far as i have read on dd-wrt
> docs
> > (http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Wireless_Bridge#Limitations and
> > http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=68) Client Bridge and
> Repeater
> > Bridge mode are not so transparent, so that every packet coming from the
> > Repeater/Client side has AP mac-address as source (as a result of 802.11
> > protocol specifications), and that's confusing coova which give the same
> IP
> > address to all  the clients associated to the repeater.
> > Sniffing traffic with wireshark on the coova host shows dhcp request
> packet formed
> > as described earlier: i can provide it to you if you need it and i can
> help
> > with more tests
> >
>
>
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