Hi,
I have 2 routers-A and B, remotely located, both have public ip addresses on ether1.
The main Router-A has hotspot running on it on ether2
I want to configure Router B- to connect to the main router A and use the hotspot running on it. Router B(ether2) should be an extension of the hotspot running on RouterA (ether2).
How would i go about this?
Regards
Do you mean you want the two hotspots to use the same user/password database? Then User Manager or a radius program like FreeRADIUS would be best.
If this is not what you want, maybe if you are a little more specific about your requirements on the two hotspots, somebody could help you.
i meant, 2 routers, but one router does the hotspot, the other acts as a bridge or something.
As long as the traffic arrives at layer 2 that would work.
But bridging traffic is no way to go through life. Bridging sucks. It’s something you inherit and fix and cut to routing, and not something you design on purpose. It would be far, far preferable to run two Hotspots.
You need to:
Bridge the ether1 and wlan1 of the “repeater router/hotspot”
Put there a IP of the hotspot (fixed costumer IP of the same range…) To ether1
Put in the master hotspot/IPbindings all combinations of IP+MAC of the repeater hotspot and set to bypass.
Then the connection between them are ether1 of repeater with ether2 of the master.
The hotspot in the master will be set to a bridge, and the ports of the bridge will be the ether2 with the active ports now.