can an access point connect through an access point?

[Neil Cherry]

Claude Jones wrote:
> On Sun January 29 2006 9:27 am, Craig White wrote:
>> If the second AP has a 'bridging mode' which would allow it to bridge
>> via wireless to the first AP, that is what you apparently need.
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/9eohr
> The second graphic on this page perfectly portrays my topology except that 
> there's only a single machine connected to the secondary AP. According to 
> this page, "it probably won't work" - but a little further down, a post 
> states that "some AP's can be configured to act as a repeater or wireless 
> bridge, but it's fairly rare." 
> It that's true, there doesn't seem to be any way of configuring this D-Link to 
> be a wireless bridge or repeater, unless I'm missing something in the 
> translation...

Most store bought AP don't support this setup. You can purchase
a Wireless bridge to connect network B through the AP to everything
else. The WRT54 family with OpenWRT, HyperWRT or the other 3rd
party software can do this. You would keep one D-Link as an AP
and get a WRT54GL (if you're buying new), setup the OpenWRT software
as a client and connect to the D-Link. See this:

http://wiki.openwrt.org/ClientModeHowto

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