What is right configuration for wifi range extender? => SOLVED

Installing and Using OpenWrt Network and Wireless Configuration
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have installed openwrt on my netgear EX3700. I have changed its IP to the range of on main network, where my router (Linksys 3200 with openwrt) = 10.31.58.250 and the extender = 10.31.58.251`

I can connect to this over ssh and through LucI. So far, so good. What I want to achieve is that the extender extends my existing SSIDs so that clients can roam seamlessly between the two. Can anyone tell me the settings to do this?`

In addition, it needs to take DNS from the main router which runs
DSNcrypt, and I guess,should take DHCP assignment from the main router too

At present, the luCi Interfaces > LAN in the extender has the following`

`protocol       = ` `static` `address`
`IPv4 address   = 10.31.58.251`
`IPv4 gateway   = 10.31.58.250.`

I haven't configured anything else - or the wirlesss interfaces - yet
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looks like your two routers have a wired connection. you should configure your EX3700 as a dumb AP (see https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/dumbap)

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Hi there
thank for quick reply.
But no. The Linksys and the extended will be connecting over wifi. (im just connecting to the extender via ethernet cable from my laptop)

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ok. as both of your routers run OpenWrt, you can set up a wireless bridge using WDS (https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/atheroswds)

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cool - let me have a go at this - thanks

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thanks for pointing me in the right direction here - seems to work perfectly! thanks again

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you are welcome. please mark the topic as solved (How to mark a topic as [Solved] )