Assist with connecting to a router via LAN.
Assist with connecting to a router via LAN.
This campus LAN setup uses individual switches per block, linked via the main backbone to the internet and each other. IP addresses are managed through a central DHCP server. My goal is to install a router in repeater mode that captures an off-university-internet connection and broadcasts it across its LAN ports (WDS?). Connecting through these LAN ports lets me reach the WiFi, but I need to connect another device on the same university network to use this alternative WiFi. I can ping the router from another machine on the network—though this might not be directly useful—but in the Windows Network tab where file sharing is available, only devices connected to the immediate switches appear.
Download the DD-WRT package for your router from the provided link. Access your network's router IP address, log in, and update the settings through the interface. After installing the firmware and configuring credentials, refer to the setup instructions at the given website to configure it as a repeater bridge.
I could be mistaking but this is not what the OP is looking for. The OP has a setup like this: WiFi Network -- Owned Router -- | University Network (unowned) | -- Owned router -- PC And he want's to have communication between the PC and the WiFi Network. @Darth Beeius is that right? This would require a few things. First of all both of your routers must have a fixed IP address in the university network. Your univerity shouldn't have some firewall in place which blocks packets which are unknown to it. If so you want to build a GRE tunnel between the two routers. You probably also want to enable a routing protocol (like OSPF) to advertise the routes in both networks (depending on the setup you might not need this). I haven't working with dd-wrt but this tutorial seems to be what you need: https://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/EoIP_Routing @Lurick any comments on this?
The university network uses a DHCP server. You can assign a static IP in your router, but DHCP won’t automatically create a new one for you.