Bridging The Gap

Posted on Monday 2 January 2006

Technology

Trying to create a bridged wireless network can be a nightmare, as I have learned from first-hand experience today. Trying to create a 400 m wireless link seems easy enough, right? A few things to keep in mind in case I do this in the future: The whole Client-Bridged Mode -> AP Mode paradigm sucks. Don’t waste your time trying to get it to work out. Simply use WDS and get on with your life. Problems with traditional bridged mode include: Only allowing the use of 3-addresses so that DHCP handshaking is impossible…..I’m sure there’s more, but this seems like a bit of an oversight! Anyway, my firmware, DD-WRT v23 final, does not seem to handle WPA2 authentication very well either. So, I’m stuck with a crappy ol’ 128-bit WEP encryption scheme. It’s OK….but c’mon, I need 256-bit Temporal Keys. I promise I do.


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