All 3 bridges had defaulted to a Generic MAC address as you suspected. I updated each bridge to Build 12307, ran the script you provided, and like magic they all connected in perfect harmony. There is no drop in bandwidth and every one can be online together. Thanks for all your help. This is a great community with a lot of helpful/knowledgeable people. :D
P.S. You may want to add this info to the Client Bridge and the WRT54G v5-6 wiki. So no one else has to go through it like me
Joined: 26 Jan 2008 Posts: 13049 Location: Behind The Reset Button
Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 16:21 Post subject:
DeezNuts420 wrote:
barryware.....You are the MAN!!!!
All 3 bridges had defaulted to a Generic MAC address as you suspected. I updated each bridge to Build 12307, ran the script you provided, and like magic they all connected in perfect harmony. There is no drop in bandwidth and every one can be online together. Thanks for all your help. This is a great community with a lot of helpful/knowledgeable people. :D
P.S. You may want to add this info to the Client Bridge and the WRT54G v5-6 wiki. So no one else has to go through it like me
Glad you got it working... One thing to remember..
This IS NOT a permanent change. If you hard reset the router, you will have to run the commands again.
It will survive a power cycle or a reboot through the gui but will not survive a hard reset or a "restore default settings" through the gui.
The only way to make it permanent at this time, is to edit and replace the cfe on your box(s). _________________ [Moderator Deleted]
Can you give me the command to make the MAC permanent?
hexedit.exe _________________ SIG:
I'm trying to teach you to fish, not give you a fish. If you just want a fish, wait for a fisherman who hands them out. I'm more of a fishing instructor.
LOM: "If you show that you have not bothered to read the forum announcements or to follow the advices in them then the level of help available for you will drop substantially, also known as Murrkf's law.."
FWIW after struggling with client bridging for a while and sort of having it half-work (client router kept snatching IPs from any laptop I tried to connect, causing problems) I discovered this WDS thing and holy crap it is fantastic.
I know there's supposed to be this bandwidth-halving thing, but my transfer rates went from 1.2 MB/s to over 7 MB/s. So I can't recommend it enough!
W
PS-- fwiw I'm using two WNDR3300 routers I got off newegg for like $40 each...