Wireless Bridge

[lleachii]

@gentrydeng

wireless bridge functionality for the last few days, but it doesn't seem to be possible on OpenWrt 23.05.

You may recall from our recent discussion:

@lleachii

this was only possible on old Broadcom-based devices (as this confused me when i first started using OpenWrt). It sounds like you want relay mode.

What make/model device is this?

There's extended discussions on why this is a hardware-based standard, not something that can be implemented via software. Feel free to search.

Here's one:

Best practice using OpenWRT as client to upstream ISP router

From what I've read, that is not supported: The STA end of a regular (not WDS) AP-STA link cannot be placed in a bridge. This is because the 802.11 standard does not transmit the necessary MAC address information for layer 2 switching to work. A cable would be best indeed, but alas, I can't get one to the room with the media player.

(You coulda asked why it wasn't possible - I wondered why it seemed as if you kept ignoring the wireless bridge posting and kept trying anyway.)

@gentrydeng

relayd seems to be a solution, but first it must manually configure the IP address.

This isn't accurate, I provided an example config in the thread. It does not contain that. In fact it has no IP, as the protocol is set to "none".

Have you reviewed the Wiki?