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Re: Help needed with home network configuration

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On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 13:13:30 -0000 (UTC)
Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> wrote:

> Joe wrote:
> > [...]
> > I'd have thought that hardwired hubs are long gone, that all devices
> > with multiple Ethernet ports are switches and therefore software-based.
> > Indeed, many routers can be configured as VLANs.
> 
> Hubs pretty much are.  Not entirely sure where you're thinking switches
> are "software-based" though. Switching is typically done in ASICs these
> days ... 
> 
> >
> > I had a different problem recently, trying to work out which of a few
> > high-bandwidth 802.11ac routers could be configured in pairs as wireless
> > point-to-point links, which also uses the term 'bridging', and no, they
> > can't all do it. But documentation is usually very poor for the
> > lesser-used functions of most things. 'Bridging' is also used to mean
> > wireless repeating, which is a different thing again.
> 
> Honestly, I'd never trust an "all-in-one" consumer router for that (even
> if it "supports" it on the box). Pair of purpose-built radios (e.g.
> Ubiquiti AirMAX) would probably do best for that situation.

FWIW, I recently followed these directions:

https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/recipes/atheroswds

to use an old Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH to bring network connectivity to a
server in a location without ethernet cabling and lacking wireless
hardware. The Buffalo is configured as a wireless client connecting to
the main switch / router / AP (a TP-Link Archer [A]C2600), and the
Buffalo's wired switch is bridged to the rest of the network. The
TP-Link and Buffalo are both running OpenWRT [LEDE].

I'm not sure if I'm using the terminology correctly, but what this
means in practice is that I have one big network, with all wireless and
wired clients of the main AP [except those on the guest wireless
network, of course], as well as the wired clients of the Buffalo, on
the same network. [I haven't enabled access point functionality on the
Buffalo, since I don't need it.]

Works flawlessly, once I managed to follow the directions correctly ;)
This is the opposite of common multi-ap solutions, that use wired
backhaul and provide wireless connectivity to clients. In my
configuration, I use the 2.4 GHz wireless band for the "backhaul" (my
main wireless clients are using the 5 GHz band), and the server is
wired to the Buffalo.

Celejar

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Help needed with home network configuration Johann Spies <johann.spies@gmail.com> - 2018-03-09 15:40 +0100
  Re: Help needed with home network configuration Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2018-03-09 16:20 +0100
    Re: Help needed with home network configuration Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-03-09 18:40 +0100
      Re: Help needed with home network configuration David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-03-15 03:30 +0100
        Re: Help needed with home network configuration Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-03-15 06:20 +0100
        Re: Help needed with home network configuration Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> - 2018-03-15 18:20 +0100
          Re: Help needed with home network configuration David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-03-16 02:50 +0100
            Re: Help needed with home network configuration rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-03-16 04:30 +0100
              Re: Help needed with home network configuration Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-03-16 09:50 +0100
                Re: Help needed with home network configuration rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-03-16 14:00 +0100
                Re: Help needed with home network configuration rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-03-16 14:10 +0100
                Re: Help needed with home network configuration Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-03-16 14:30 +0100
                Re: Help needed with home network configuration Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2018-03-31 00:30 +0200
                Re: Help needed with home network configuration Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-04-03 13:50 +0200
                Re: Help needed with home network configuration Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2018-04-05 19:40 +0200
                Re: Help needed with home network configuration Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-04-06 12:20 +0200
                Re: Help needed with home network configuration David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-04-06 16:50 +0200
                Re: Help needed with home network configuration Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-04-06 18:40 +0200
                Re: Help needed with home network configuration David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-04-07 16:00 +0200
                Re: Help needed with home network configuration Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-04-07 22:30 +0200
                Re: Help needed with home network configuration David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-04-08 02:00 +0200
                Re: Help needed with home network configuration Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-04-08 02:50 +0200
                Re: Help needed with home network configuration Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2018-04-08 14:10 +0200
                Re: Help needed with home network configuration Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-04-09 12:40 +0200
                Re: Help needed with home network configuration David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-04-13 16:20 +0200
                Re: Help needed with home network configuration Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2018-04-14 10:00 +0200
                Re: Help needed with home network configuration Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-04-15 13:40 +0200
                Re: Help needed with home network configuration rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-04-15 14:10 +0200
                Re: Help needed with home network configuration Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2018-04-15 18:50 +0200
                Re: Help needed with home network configuration rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-04-16 00:50 +0200
                Re: Help needed with home network configuration Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-04-15 13:30 +0200
                Re: Help needed with home network configuration Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2018-04-08 14:00 +0200
                Re: Help needed with home network configuration Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-04-09 12:30 +0200
                Re: Help needed with home network configuration David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-03-16 17:20 +0100
              Re: Help needed with home network configuration David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-03-16 15:40 +0100
            Re: Help needed with home network configuration Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-03-16 14:20 +0100
              Re: Help needed with home network configuration David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-03-16 17:10 +0100
                Re: Help needed with home network configuration Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-03-19 12:00 +0100
            Re: Help needed with home network configuration Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> - 2018-03-16 18:30 +0100
              Re: Help needed with home network configuration David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-03-16 20:20 +0100
                Re: Help needed with home network configuration Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> - 2018-03-16 21:00 +0100
                Re: Help needed with home network configuration David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-03-17 00:50 +0100
  Re: Help needed with home network configuration Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-03-09 17:30 +0100
  Re: Help needed with home network configuration john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2018-03-09 20:30 +0100
  Re: Help needed with home network configuration Johann Spies <johann.spies@gmail.com> - 2018-03-10 10:10 +0100
    Re: Help needed with home network configuration <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-03-10 10:20 +0100

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