[BBBexodus]

I haven't got the 7501 working as an xbox/ps2/oldOS wifi bridge yet. The firewall is in the way I think, right now I am doing something different, just letting it lay idle but connected as a client, completely unplugged, hosting a web page, the first few times I let it idle as a client it lost the connection after about 20 minutes, but right now it's been alive for 9 hours. I set it so that it pings the main router once every 10 minutes.

The wl channel 11 should be your channel #wl channel yourchannel, in your case 10.

Were you able to get a dhcp lease?
Join your SSID:
#wl join MySSID key XXXXXXXX
I didn't try WEP myself, if that doesn't work try this:
#wl join MySSID key XXXXXXXX amode shared
then grab a lease do:
#udhcpc -i wl0.
If everything is working right you should get a leased ip. Set the leased ip to #ifconfig wl0 leased_ip. Now see if you can ping your main router. If you can ping your main router at this point you can start ftpd or httpd and serve files as a client on your network.
After that you can add the route and the name servers and open up your 7501 to the world, but it is unnecessary for the above.

[BBBexodus]

[Rhandy]

So, it doesn't require the User and Password?

[davy_gravy]

@ Rhandy, nope.

Just use the telnetd hack in the traceroute window, and

[baba2s]

Thanks BBBexodus
some success, thank you
now i can ping my local network and also able to ping www.yahoo.com from telnet window.
but i cannot browse internet from LAN connected PC. As you said earlier , we need to remove the firewall.
Following are the commands which worked


/&/& /sbin/telnetd
wl ap 0
wl wsec 1
wl wet 1
wl channel 10
wl scan
wl scanresults
brctl delif br0 wl0
ifconfig br2 down
killall udhcpc
cd /var/net_mgr/exec
./FirewallInit
./FirewallNone
wl join baba1s key 11111111111111111111111111
ifconfig wl0 192.168.1.161
route add default gw 192.168.1.1 wl0
echo "nameserver 4.2.2.1" > /var/etc/resolv.conf
echo "nameserver 4.2.2.2" >> /var/etc/resolv.conf
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
iptables --table nat -A POSTROUTING -o wl0 -j MASQUERADE

Now guru's , someone can help us to fix the routing/firewall issue ?
Here is the route output..

# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
239.255.255.250 hubrouter 255.255.255.255 UGH 0 0 0 br0
127.0.0.1 hubrouter 255.255.255.255 UGH 0 0 0 br0
192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 wl0
192.168.200.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 br0
default 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 wl0
#

[Rhandy]

Oh men! I make this to work. But when I turn on/off the router, everything goes away.
I was able to browse the internet.
I don't know how but i did.
The main router is connnected to the DSL, and the second one, connected to that main router wirelessly and that second router is connected to a computer (wired) and I was able to browse the internet.
But, everything goes away now.

[baba2s]

[davy_gravy]

...just a friendly word of caution about adding Custom Firewall stuff...

I've done it dozens of times with impunity (knock on wood), but one user suggested that putting a "bad" statement in here may partially brick or perhaps at least temporarily mess up your router. I haven't had a bad experience with this yet, but his account made it sound as if even pressing the reset button on the back of the router to reset to factory defaults did not work for him. ??? That sounds strange, but I guess you never know.

I would strongly suggest that you script out your commands in a long text file, and first double or triple check that they are all correct, before pasting them into that Custom Firewall window and pressing "Save". You should be able to test/debug your command sequence out by pasting them one-by-one to a telnet window, and observing output.

[Rhandy]

I don't know how I did that, and I lost all the settings. Anyone knows what I mean?

I have two routers. (7501)

The first one is connected (WAN Port) to my DSL Modem.
Also, it has on the Ethernet 1 and Ethernet 2 Interfaces two computers connected.

However, the one I want to modify is the second one, not the first.
I want that the second one connect to the first one as a client (wirelessly) and share the Internet connection with the other Ethernet Interfaces.

How can I do that?
I know that it's possible because I did, but as I said, when I turned off the router, it lost all the settings. Can you help me BBBexodus?

Thanks!

[baba2s]

[davy_gravy]

the package that I put together for the Verizon 7501 so that it support USB disk sharing, USB printing, and UPnP media sharing now has a finished web interface, basic, but it works and provides usable/useful function:

[Rhandy]

[davy_gravy]

OK, I've reread and re-reread everything I can find ... and changed the title of the article... Wireless Switch Mode. If this seem counterintuitive to anyone, just think about the difference between a router and a switch.

Well, basically, it just works as a wireless _switch_. These are the basic settings & connection of cables:
-NAT is turned off

-the WAN port on the 7501 is not used (instead of DSL/cable_modem <-> WAN_on_7501, it must be DSL/cable_modem <-> any_LAN_port_on_7501

-dhcp is handled by your DSL/Cable modem

-Private LAN is turned off

-Public LAN on, using static IP settings

Essentially, it means your wireless router does only one thing in terms of network traffic - it passes wireless traffic straight through to&from the DSL/cable modem, without blocking anything or performing NAT. I changed the name of this article, since there seems to be some confusion and unclarity (not just in the literature, but for _me_ too, about what 'wireless bridge' means)...

[ZGitRDun8705]

As I understand it, a wireless switch performs none of the standard routing functions (NAT, DHCP, Firewall), and simply acts as a wired switch would (splitting traffic among multiple devices), and is connected to the primary router via wire to one of the LAN ports or to the WAN port

A wireless bridge is used to connect 2 routers. again, the secondary router (the one in bridge mode) doesnt do dhcp, firewall or nat, but is connected wirelessly to the primary router, allowing them to be placed far apart. This means only the wired ports of the secondary router can be used.

A wireless access point may or may not perform additional dhcp, firewall, or nat, and is used to add wireless capability to a wired network, and is connected to the primary router via wire to the WAN port.

[davy_gravy]

yes, ZGitRDun8705, that's exactly what I mean. Thanks for clarifying what I'd only been able to circumlocute about.

The term "wireless access point" is very general. The "wireless switch" mode we're talking about then can be looked at as a subset of WAP.