Widy/Bridging

Bridging

Bridging the Widy can take two forms:

• Bridging a wired and a wireless connection
• Bridging two wireless connections (repeater mode)

Bridging Wired Connection

The first step to bridging a wired and wireless connection is figuring out how to connect to a wired network with the Widy. When you connect the Widy to a router that's connected to the internet, it won't immediately be able to obtain an IP address.

Create Ethernet Interface in DHCP Client Mode

Open the Luci web interface by connecting to the Widy's Access Point wireless network (OpenWrts) and log in with your username and password.

Click Network > Interfaces, then edit the LAN interface (or create it).

You'll see that the Widy is probably set up to serve out IP addresses as a DHCP server, not accept an IP address as a DHCP client.

Make sure you are connected to the Widy via OpenWrts wireless AP network. Then shut down the lan connection.

Now create a new interface, called getwired. The protocol of this new interface will be "DHCP client." Now check the "Create a bridge over multiple interfaces" box. Cover the following interfaces: ethernet adapter (eth0, lan) and wireless network "OpenWrts" (wrtwifi).

Click Submit.

Now you should have a GETWIRED network interface that will act in DHCP client mode and will ask for an IP address.

Check It Worked

Click Network > Interfaces and see the GETWIRED connection. Click the "Connect" button next to it. You should see "IPv4: 192.168.1.37" (or whatever IP the router has assigned to the Widy device).

Now you can seamlessly connect to the internet from your devices connected only to the Widy's access point, the OpenWrts wireless network.

Victory Dance

Hooray! You have now simultaneously created a working wireless network.

Issues

Can't connect to wider internet from one node on the network,

Can connect to the wider internet from another node.

Related

Widy/Toolbox