Just for testing I tried setting up a wAP as repeater.
Extending a WLAN created by a mAP2n/RouterOS works nice. (It creates a station bridge.)
Extending a WLAN created by an Apple AP was a bit more troublesome:
It created a station pseudobridge (station bridge would not work), and I can connect to the created WLAN, but DHCP fails. I guess somehow the pseudobridge's MAC address translation prevents DHCP from working.
If I set static IP on the client, everything works. (The dhcpd in question is a dnsmasq running on Ubuntu.)
In the dnsmasq log (syslog) I see repeated:
DHCPDISCOVER(br1) <connecting device's mac address>
DHCPOFFER(br1) 172.16.0.19 <connecting device's mac address>
@Normis I guess that means it depends on how picky the running DHCP server is. Some more documentation on station bridge vs station pseudobridge would be nice.
@quackyo: You were referring to
this thread?