Using Hotspotsystem With Dd-Wrt In Client Bridge (Routed) Mode

  • Anonymous October 7, 2013 at 10:34 am

    I’m trying to run HotspotSystem on a dd-wrt router in Client Bridge (routed) mode but can’t get the splash page to show. I have the client bridge mode running OK i.e. can connect to the virtual interface and have web access. Here’s my setup…

    Core router

    192.168.5.1

    Serving DHCP

    Not running HotspotSystem (not dd-wrt compatible)

    Hotspot Router

    Client bridge (routed) mode

    192.168.5.100

    ath0 – connected to core router Wi-Fi

    ath0.1 – virtual interface (the one I want the portal on)

    HotspotSystem settings – only given LAN as option for DHCP IF

    Bridge br0, STP no, contains eth0 eth1 ath0.1

    Any ideas?

    Thanks

    Paul D

    stevehars October 7, 2013 at 4:20 pm

    Hello,

    This is a bit much for the router together I think.

    If you want to connect to another router wirelessly and add something(hotspot) to the signal and use the result as a another wireless signal, it would be a repeater mode.

    This can be seen from DD-WRT help on the right where you can set Wireless Mode options under the Wireless Physical interface. (client bridge is about diasabling WAN to use only one(bridged) network node.

    So it can be WDS or a non-WDS repeater. However a non-WDS repeater would not keep MAC address data, thus will let the users through after the first successful login. In your scenario it may be used, since you’d run the hotspot on the last router in the chain.

    To configure a WDS repeater please see our article here: http://www.hotspotsystem.com/hotspot_help/kb/articles/31-extend-range-with-wds-wireless-distribution-system

    To configure a non-WDS repeater you need to use Repeater or Repeater bridge mode(we haven’t tested this yet).

    In repeater mode you’ll use the physical wireless interface to connect to your another router, while the virtual interface would run the hotspot. You need to set it of course to unbridged mode to get the node index under the DHCP interface of the hotspot.

    If you ran into trouble, try to use 8.8.8.8 for google’s DNS under basic>basic setup>router IP>local DNS and remove the 3 checkbox flags for DNSMasq for DNS, DHCP and DHCP-authoritative under Network address server settings on the same page.

    Best Regards,

    Steve Hars,

    Hotspotsystem.com

    Anonymous October 8, 2013 at 10:04 am

    Thanks Steve, will give it a try and report back.

    Paul D

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