Well allow me to elaborate, if I have a mikrotik as a station connection to a retail ap, guess what, not virtual ap for me, boohoodily hoo, thanks mikrotik. What, did you think my netgear was going to allow WDS?? Or perhaps you think I will have a lot of luck connecting in “bridge” mode?
MIKROTIK PLEASE ADD A REPEATER FEATURE. Would mean that you wouldnt require another physical interface to run an AP off your client device, would bring us closer to an age where installers dont neccesarily need to climb into attics to run cat5 anymore, the impact of including this feature could be significant when merged with a cost effective solar power solution.
And if thats too far fetched of an idea, it would bring down cost of deploying ap/client/repeater setup, owners wouldnt need to purchase a second wireless card to deploy AP when in station mode.
thats funny, seems to work just fine for every other platform.
OpenWRT, Tomatoe, DDWRT, Pfsense, MadWifi, HostAP
Should I go on?
I have a cheap linksys router right here thats a client connected to a wep encrypted network and has a Vlan that is broadcasting as an AP, no problem at all.
It is possible in MadWIFI but in certain circumstances.
even if you run it Card have to switch from Master to Managed mode in few us, and i believe overall performance of it is very poor.
Why do you need that feature anyway ? get yourself a new router or additional radio card.
IMHO mikrotik drivers are more stable than any madwifi
normis:
Recent versions of MadWifi support so called “VAPs”. VAP is short for “Virtual Access Point” (which unfortunately is a misleading term) and is a virtual WLAN interface which is attached to exactly one physical WLAN interface (the “parent device” or just “parent”). More than one VAP may be attached to a single parent, and they may even be of different types. The MadWifi users guide has more details in its section Using wlanconfig.
myprompt# wlanconfig ath create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode ap
myprompt# wlanconfig ath create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode sta nosbeacon
myprompt# wlanconfig ath create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode ap
My opinion is that feature is completly useless.
This would only introduce a drop in performance. Any one can use OpenWRT for that.
Lack of this feature is not a LAME mate… I did used madwifi for a while and its great but for Production networks i wouldn’t use it at ALL.
I understand your concern for bandwidth in this mode, I have not done any throughput testing, but its as in 11mb/B mode as an auxillery access point, dDDWRT Documentation shows that “Bandwidth is halved for wireless clients” when in repeater mode, also this is not done with madwifi, using a broadcom chipset on Linksys WRT54Gv2 Using DDWRT MEGA v24
In DDWRT Wireless must be set in “Repeater” Mode for this to work
Yes it is a client/station wep connected
Yes is is a vlan broadcasting unencrypted
Interfaces bridged to dhcp interface.
Documentation here, and I have no doubt there might be some sort of throughput penalty, but it surely is one I will not observe considering that I am using 802.11b only so the signal propagates further.
cmon, you guys never heard of a repeater? many linksys and netgear devices are capable of this function, and it works on BOTH Atheros AND Broadcom