How to connect GL-AR300M (OpenWRT) and NanoPi R2S (OpenWRT)?

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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Hello everyone.

Please tell me how to connect two routers GL-AR300M-Ext (OpenWRT) + NanoPi R2S (OpenWRT) ?
NanoPi R2S is a gigabit router (single board) without WIFI https://openwrt.org/toh/friendlyarm/nanopi_r2s and GL-AR300M-Ext is a WI-FI router https://openwrt.org/toh/gl.inet/gl-ar300m that should distribute a signal (internet)

Do I understand correctly that for everything to work I should connect like this?

internet => [WLAN] NanoPI R2S [LAN] + (LAN) GL-AR300M-Ext => WI-FI

Then go to the GL-AR300M router using HTTP the browser 192.168.2.1 In the router menu Network => Interfaces => LAN change the ip address so that it does not match the ip address of NanoPi R2S ?

Will this be enough for this scheme to work?

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It is called a bridged AP.
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/wifiextenders/bridgedap
The IP address of the AP should be in the same network (192.168.1.X/24) as the main router but a different value of the last byte than the main router. For example leaving the NanoPi LAN at its default of 192.168.1.1, use 192.168.1.2 for the AR300M.

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