Access point as a repeater

[Ulfwald]

I currently have a Linksys wrt160nl router with latest firmware, and I want to use my older wap54g as a repeater. I use WEP 128 bit as security on the router, should I also enable wep 128 on the wap54g? For some reason it seems not to connect. And yes I have been to the linksys website and read the support articles, but it does not mention security. Also, do I need a SSID on the wap54g, or, does all the settings just get repeated from the router to the wap?

 

[JackMDS]

Flash both with DD-WRT.

Then, http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Repeater_Bridge

 

[Emulex]

DD-WRT has ethernet tunnel over IP. It's a pure bridge. you want ROUTER A and B to crap everything over the wire (bonjour! nfs) then it will do it. Many other bridging solutions cannot bridge ALL ethernet protocols so if you have apple or vpn's you want to bridge then it doesn't work.

bridging is straight up ROUTER A get's a packet sent to router B - like a hub not as smart as a switch. so you have to be careful about oversaturating your link. multicast should be filtered on the switch before it. (most managed switches use multicast filtering to prevent multicasts from nailing everyone on the segment).