Re: Help needed with home network configuration
On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 11:30:24 -0000 (UTC)
Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> wrote:
> 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?
I'm not using the Buffalo to provide wireless connectivity to any
clients. The page I linked to does have instructions for doing that,
but I don't need it.
Celejar
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