Re: Help needed with home network configuration

[Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net>]

Celejar wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 13:13:30 -0000 (UTC)
> Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> wrote:
>
>> Joe wrote:
>> > [...]
>> > I'd have thought that hardwired hubs are long gone, that all devices
>> > with multiple Ethernet ports are switches and therefore software-based.
>> > Indeed, many routers can be configured as VLANs.
>> 
>> Hubs pretty much are.  Not entirely sure where you're thinking switches
>> are "software-based" though. Switching is typically done in ASICs these
>> days ... 
>> 
>> >
>> > I had a different problem recently, trying to work out which of a few
>> > high-bandwidth 802.11ac routers could be configured in pairs as wireless
>> > point-to-point links, which also uses the term 'bridging', and no, they
>> > can't all do it. But documentation is usually very poor for the
>> > lesser-used functions of most things. 'Bridging' is also used to mean
>> > wireless repeating, which is a different thing again.
>> 
>> Honestly, I'd never trust an "all-in-one" consumer router for that (even
>> if it "supports" it on the box). Pair of purpose-built radios (e.g.
>> Ubiquiti AirMAX) would probably do best for that situation.
>
> FWIW, I recently followed these directions:
>
> https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/recipes/atheroswds
>
> to use an old Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH to bring network connectivity to a
> server in a location without ethernet cabling and lacking wireless
> hardware. The Buffalo is configured as a wireless client connecting to
> the main switch / router / AP (a TP-Link Archer [A]C2600), and the
> Buffalo's wired switch is bridged to the rest of the network. The
> TP-Link and Buffalo are both running OpenWRT [LEDE].
>
> I'm not sure if I'm using the terminology correctly [...]

Yep, you've got the terms right.  

Does the buffalo also provide wifi access to other clients close to it?
or is it JUST trying to pretend that it's a client device to the
TP-Link?

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