[jbullock]

Hi

I have been racking my brains trying to get bridge mode to work between a Hawking H2WR54G (master?) and a Netgear WGR614v9 (repeater?).

The Hawking is a dual-wan router (I have Cable and ADSL) which works fine for wifi, load balancing, etc. The Netgear is going to be in a different room connected to 2 servers, so I want to set up bridge mode between the two routers (Netgear to also be a repeater?). Both routers have the latest firmware.


This is my proposal:

Server 1------|Netgear Router|>> <<|Hawking Router|-----|WAN1/WAN2|
Server 2------|


I have done the following configurations (I've obscured the MAC addresses in this example):

Hawking:
IP: 192.168.2.1
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
DHCP: Enabled
DHCP Range: 192.168.2.100-200
MAC: 00:11:22:33:44:57
ESSID: jjb
Channel: 5
Security: WPA-shared key
Mode: AP Bridge-WDS
WDS-Security: None (for testing)
MAC Address 1: 00:22:3F:32:CE:xx

Netgear:
IP: 192.168.1.1
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
DHCP: Disabled
MAC: 00:22:3F:32:CE:xx
SSID: jjb
Channel: 5
Repeater Function: Enabled
Repeater IP Address: 192.168.2.2
Base Station MAC: 00:11:22:33:44:xx


I have tried other configuration options such as point-to-point mode (not WDS) but the same problem occurs. After applying the settings on the Netgear router, the PC disconnects and does not find a connection on the wired lan (as if I've unplugged the cable!).


I haven't used bridge mode before, so could this mean that it's (the Netgear) not finding the base station (the Hawking)?


I would be very grateful if somebody can point me in the right direction.


Thanks in advance,
Jas