I have two routers each connected to a client device. My goal is to be able to merge the two networks and access all devices over one network. I have successfully used Relayd before to bridge the two networks however that is leading to poor network performance which is why I am looking for another option. I have also tried setting up the OpenWRT Router as a client and connecting it to the other Router's wireless network but in that case when I connected to the Router's Wireless network, I can only see device 1, I am not able to reach OpenWRT router and the device 2 connected to it. What am I missing here? Are there any other ways to do this? Any help would be appreciated!
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Ignoring the visible scope for now, but does get that you (significantly) better performance? If not, there's no point investigating this venue any further and you're simply limited by radios/ distance between them.
Relayd has many issues (and should be avoided, if possible), but performance is not its Achilles heel.
You never mentioned the distance and if both routers are connected to internet and if the bridge is supposed to go over the internet or ”in-house”?
What security do you want in the bridge?
Hmm like others said relayd is very old and can cause issues.
But when i look to your topology I see you have double nat, and you want it to become one single network?
Not so long ago I had kinda a familiar situation, what you can do is choose one router as your main, and from there you sent vlan tunnels down stream.
now I don't know if you have managed switches to pass through vlans they may come in handy, but your second router then can be configured with no firewall, and there you can aswell use vlans with other words it just becomes a client in your router1 network which sent the same vlan tunnel, meaning clients are managable through router1, you can also do it without vlan this way too !
Optionally if you have no managed switches but unmanaged switches, and they are still crucial in your network, you can look into something like gretap which encapsulate vlans over a udp type tunnel which unmanaged switches don't strip , however you need two routers for this one to sent the other to intercept.
, however you need two routers for this one to sent the other to intercept.