need to have two Linksys WRT54G routers communicate

[gman10]

Hello all-

Hope everyone is doing well here.. Here's my situation:
I need to provide a solution for a Hospital (customer) of ours at work. Generally they will need two Linksys wireless routers (802.11G). One will act as the Access Point (call it AP1)and the other should communicate with it (call it AP2).. Can this be done at all?? The first AP1 will in fact be connected to a 2950 Cisco switch but the other (AP 2) will not, it will need to depend on AP1.. I'm starting to think that this is not achievable.. I set up a test environment at work where AP1 was attached to our internal Cisco 2950 switch where AP1 had a static 63.148.X.X address.. the second one was connected had a laptop connected to it with a wireless card where AP2 had an address that was static but of course within the same range as AP1.. I've tried everything from PPTP, SSID (same name), DHCP etc to try and make these two wireless AP's communicate with eachother but to no avail.. Perhaps there is a tried and true measure (procedure) used to make this work, perhaps it can't be done the way cisco routers can communicate with each other.. This is wireless of course and one AP is connected to a switch while the other is looking to communicate to AP1 without a hardwired switch..

Any help or direction would greatly be appreciated..

thx gman

 

[computerhighguy]

Get a cisco wireless bridge. That is the correct way to do this. You can get them cheap on ebay.


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[MattWray]

You would need WAP54G's not WRT54G's... The routers do not support bridging...

Thanks,

Matt Wray

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[gman10]

Yes,

thx guys! I did purchase the bridge before I received your responses, all is working great on the AP and the additional router.. One major necessity was that I needed to insert the MAC address of the router into the Advanced wireless settings of the AP and it worked like a charm..

thx again!

gman