[Doug8643]

Does anyone have any idea with dd-wrt set up as a WiFi Repeater how to set up an automatic proxy for both WAN & LAN clients to this port "http://192.168.49.1:8000"?

[Doug8643]

Planet's WiFi Hotspot on my Android phone provides good internet access to my Windows laptops, Android tablet, and cell phone itself. It also provides internet access to an iPad when the iPad is set up to use the automatic proxy "http://192.168.49.1:8000".

Any device that connects to the hotspot SSID without using the Automatic Proxy, does not recognize that SSID as having internet access.

I have a Netgear WNR3500Lv1 Router running DD-WRT v 3.0-r36168 mega (06/20/1Cool, Kernel
Version Linux 3.10.108-d2 #19640 Wed Jun 20 18:06:53 CEST 2018 mips, which shows a Broadcom
BCM4716 chip rev 1.

I have successfully set up the router to recognize and act as a bridged repeater for my cell phone
PdaNet+ WiFi Hotspot using a Vlan, but any device connecting to the Vlan on the router does not see
the connection as having access to the internet. To recognize that the PdaNet Hotspot has an internet
connection, the router must be able to recognize and use the PdaNet automatic proxy.

Does anyone have any suggestion as to how to get the router set up to use this Automatic Proxy "URL
= http://192.168.49.1:8000" ?

[egc]

See: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/TransparentProxy-6.html

[Doug8643]

I have successfully set up the router to recognize and act as a bridged repeater for my cell phone PdaNet+ WiFi Hotspot using a Vlan, but any device connecting to the Vlan on the router does not see the connection as having access to the internet.

I have encountered a couple of major problems:

a. The first is that the PdaNet WiFi Direct Hotspot on the phone only shows the MAC address of the router as “C0:3F:0E:B6:17:36 (waiting)”, never with and IP address and transmit/receive information. (I suspect that this is related to the fact that to recognize that the PdaNet Hotspot has an internet connection, any device must be able to recognize and use the PdaNet automatic proxy, i.e. the router.)

b. The second is that I have had no success in setting up the Hotspot in the dd-wrt Services->Hotspot Tab, HTTP Redirect section, HTTP Redirect=Enable, HTTP Destination IP=192.168.49.1,HTTP Destination Port=8000, and HTTP Source Network=192.168.49.1 (nothing I change in this setting seems to make any difference)

When setting up an iPad to use the the PdaNet WiFi Hotspot I discovered that to set up the iPad to use the Automatic Proxy, you could not just enter 192.168.49.1:8000, but had to enter the the full URL “http://192.168.49.1:8000”. I have found no way to enter “http://” portion of this URL.

Any suggestions?

[egc]

Login to the hotspot with your laptop and then clone the mac address of your laptop to your DDWRT router (Setup /Mac address clone).
In this way the DDWRT router can connect to the hotspot

[Doug8643]

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried that with both the Laptop Ethernet PdaNet Broadband MAC address, and the Wireless Connection MAC address. All I got was two “Connection xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx(waiting) showing up on the phone that was running the PdaNet WiFi Direct Hotspot. Any device I tried to connect to the Vlan on my router showed as usual “No Internet”. However I did discover that I could connect Android devices to the Router Vlan and use the Advanced Settings, Automatic Proxy, “ htpp://19.168.49.1:8000” and get an Internet Connection.

I have also just discovered that in Windows, Control Panel→Internet Properties→Connections→Local Area Network (LAN) Settings, there is an option to select “Use automatic configuration script htpp://19.168.49.1:8000/”.
This is exactly what I want the router to do, for all its clients.