Linksys Wrt54Gl + Hotspotwrt 1.22 Firmware

  • Anonymous October 5, 2012 at 10:18 pm

    Hi All,

    Hoping someone can help us out here. I've got this thing about 90% figured out but this last 10% is killing me. I've looked around the forums a bit and haven't found information related to the issue I'm having.

    Our network consists of 10 WAPs that are connected to the router via CAT5. All of the APs are set to Static IPs. Right now (no HotSpot), because they are Static we've created web links on the desktop of our management PC so we know which one is which and we can connect to them right away. Because they are wired, the HotSpot has to be set to 'LAN and Wireless'. When you set it up that way the HotSpot DHCP controls assigning IP addresses. From what I can tell from those settings there no way to set a DHCP range (ie. So we can leave 192.168.182.2 – .20 unassigned). I know you can do that in the 'non-hotspot' DHCP settings but the entire router is controlled by the HotSpot this way. Am I wrong? Is there a way to do this? We need to be able to access the AP GUIs quickly and easily. Thanks.

    Faludi Olivér October 7, 2012 at 9:45 pm

    Hello,

    I think it's easier than you think. If you have a hotspot LAN network, you can simply connect an access point to this network without configuring any IP address just make sure that the access point is in AP (access point) mode. That's it. IP address is not needed because there is no routing, the access point will simply connect your hotspot user to your hotspot lan network. If you set an IP address because you wish to reach the APs admin page make sure you use IP addresses outside of the hotspot network (you can use for eg.: 10.0.0.1, 2 etc).

    That's it.

    Anonymous October 9, 2012 at 7:29 am

    Hi Oliver,

    Thanks for the reply but that's not going to work for me. I can't let the router assign dynamic IP addresses as I need to be able to log into the AP GUIs quickly. If I have to constantly figure out what their IPs are when we're having issues with the network that will take way too much time.

    Also, assigning them IPs outside of the Hotspot network does not work either. I have a PC that we use to administer the network. From that PC I need to be able to connect to the router GUI and the AP GUIs. That means that the router, PC and APs all have to be under the same IP range.

    From what you're saying it sounds like there is no way to configure the Hotspot network to allow the PC and APs to have static IPs, is that correct? If so, is there a different firmware we can flash onto this router that will do this?

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