I want help about bridging and repeating

Installing and Using OpenWrt Network and Wireless Configuration
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I didn't realize it was 4/32. Probably not enough memory. Get something newer if possible?

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If you leave out LuCI, 4/32 should still be doable.

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Alright, thanks. I'll try that and report back.

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I mean it's not my main router, Like I just want it to make signals stronger. I already have a Xiaomi 4A with 16/64
And the main linksys router with 128/256 & 64gb set up as extroot

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Just to get things straight: all your hardware is (or was) running OpenWrt right?

  • First off: try getting all your hardware on the latest 21.02 release.
  • As for your Linksys -> Xiaomi connection: this is wired, correct? If so, disable DHCP on the Xiaomi and give it a fixed IP. Make sure the Linksys is the only DHCP and DNS server in your network.
  • Set the Xiaomi and TP-Link up as a WDS bridge following the instructions on the wiki. Make sure the TP-Link has DHCP and DNS disabled as well.
  • You can tell the DHCP server on the Linksys to send along route and DNS information along with the DHCP leases it hands out (DHCP option 3 and 6).

Some (all?) of the above might have been suggested already (especially the WDS). I have a similar setup to yours and that just works: OpenWrt wired router -> OpenWrt switch -> EAP615 AP ------------- WDS bridge ---------------- WAX202 AP to which multiple wired clients connect.

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Yes all of my hardware was running OpenWRT.

  • Linksys wrt1900ac and Xiaomi MIR4A are already on the latest openwrt, Except for tp-link, I will try building an image for tp-link router without luci.
  • Yes indeed, It is wired. DHCP is already disabled on the Xiaomi router
  • I will read further into this tomorrow.
  • I did not get it?
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do not waste your time, openwrt does not work right in repeter mode, wds ,mesh, routing, relay.you will always find a small animal. openwrt is done to work as wwan sta nating firewall.
also the version of your tplink router?
that's why i love mtk_wifi drivers, it work amazing as repeter layer2

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You're assuming your experiences are the norm, which they are not (n=1).

I've had multiple WDS setups - mt76 only or mt76/ath10k mixed - running over the years and like I indicated I still am running one. And I'm far from the only one.

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First off thanks to everyone that came here to help me.
I got it working by putting some time to read something lol, Special thanks to Borromini to pointing me into the right direction.
This setup does work with older versions of OpenWRT, e.g my Xiaomi 4A is on 19.7.6, TP-LINK wrn740N is on version 18 and Linksys WRT1900AC Is on latest version.
For anyone who also ran into same problem as me should follow these instructions on the wiki.
A short summary is:

Turn off DHCP server for the wireless repeater router (Ignore DHCP). Set the ip address of the router to a different subnet of AP (If the AP is on 1.2 then the repeater should be on 1.3). Now set a static address to your ethernet adapter to access the router, then go to Network> DHCP And DNS and set the DNS forwardings to the IP of AP router, in my case it was 192.168.1.2 . Go to Network> Interfaces and set IP Gateway to the IP address of AP Router, Once again it was 192.168.1.2 for me. In the LAN interface again turn on STP mode. Now go to Network> Wireless and click scan button and join the AP (Should be WDS AP) and from the dropdown menu select Client (WDS), it should say wwan in interface change it to LAN, Click OK, From the firewall dropdown menu once again select LAN , click save and apply. Reboot the router and you're done.

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Glad you got it working, but you should really get all your hardware on a supported release. 19.07 is EOL.

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yeah for for 20 mb down and 1 mb up

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I have a problem with the latest version on my Xiaomi 4A.
My android and android tv clients cannot see the 5Ghz Network lol.
Only works on v19 for some reason.

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