Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 13:21 Post subject: Client bridge mode finally works on my dir-615 e3
Just registered at this forum and posted this topic. So if anyone runs into the same issue as I did, you can try 14896 build.
Client bridge never worked on my dir-615 e3 (build 15778 ), After spent countless hours, I pulled out my Dir-615 c1 router (build 14896), Surprisingly, this one worked out of box.
So I reverted back to build 14896 for my dir-615 e3. all worked like a charm. Thanks DD-wrt.
Other info:
Latest build 17201 for dir-615 e3 didn't work either.
My primary router is Asus 520gu. set as wpa2 personal using AES, b and g mixed.
If you are struggling with the client bridge mode with your dir 615 e3. please try 14896 build.Good luck.
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 1:46 Post subject: Same result here!
Thank you for posting this info. I also spent about 3 hours trying to get a DIR-615 E3 working in client bridge mode. I was also using build 15778.
I reverted it to 14896 and it instantly started working.
Prior to reverting the firmware it would not pass any traffic through the bridge. The client bridge router was able to see and connect to the wireless network of the primary router, but that was it.
It appears to be a bug in the 15778 firmware.
Thanks!
I'd like to nominate this for a Sticky. Or at least update the Wiki section for this router to indicate this is the recommended build for Client Bridge mode. Trying to STFW doesn't clearly land on this post, therefore I'm voting to have it as a Sticky in the Atheros forum.
can you simply use the web interface to flash the firmware with the older release? or do you need to reset all dd-wrt settings to default, then apply old firmware?
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 0:23 Post subject: Re: Client bridge mode finally works on my dir-615 e3
microben wrote:
Just registered at this forum and posted this topic. So if anyone runs into the same issue as I did, you can try 14896 build.
Client bridge never worked on my dir-615 e3 (build 15778 ), After spent countless hours, I pulled out my Dir-615 c1 router (build 14896), Surprisingly, this one worked out of box.
So I reverted back to build 14896 for my dir-615 e3. all worked like a charm. Thanks DD-wrt.
Other info:
Latest build 17201 for dir-615 e3 didn't work either.
My primary router is Asus 520gu. set as wpa2 personal using AES, b and g mixed.
If you are struggling with the client bridge mode with your dir 615 e3. please try 14896 build.Good luck.
microben, I've just had basically the exact same experience as you.
Just finished installing DD-WRT on my D-Link DIR-615 E3 (firmware code: AP99-AR7240-RT-091105-01 for those too lazy to hexdump D-Link's official firmware) using 15778 as recommended in the wiki+database. Everything else worked fine except for client bridge (which was labelled "client bridge (routed)" for some reason.
I confirmed through telnet that the ath0 interface wasn't being added to the br0 bridge. Also, it appears that manually adding other [sub-]interfaces to the bridge using the web GUI doesn't work other, so it's not just wireless that's affected.
I tried manually adding it through telnet, but I couldn't ping *through* the router to anything on the other side of the wireless, though the router itself could ping anything on either side. So it looks like it may be driver related as well, not just GUI tool problems.
As you suggested, reflashed with 14896, and everything works perfectly now (so far).
For what it's worth, I'm running the same config on a Netgear WGR614 v8 running -mini 14929, as well as an Airlink-101 AR430W running -std 13064 all joined to the same AP with no problems.
+1 for voting this to be sticky'ed and added to the wiki/db.
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 0:48 Post subject: Re: Client bridge mode finally works on my dir-615 e3
I've had nearly the same experience. Following the "New Wiki Material-Client Bridge" with build 15778 was not successful, and try as I might I could not get it to work.
Switched to 14896 and the wiki worked nearly perfectly. My remaining hang up is the DHCP server of the primary router receives the request and reserves a DHCP lease but it is not getting passed back to the client behind the wireless bridge. But if I then set the IP (as reserved on the primary AP), subnet, and gateway manually (primary AP) on the client behind the wireless bridge it goes online but still can't access shares from one win7 machine to another across the bridge.
Setup is a DIR-655 as the primary AP running D-Link FW, WP2 only TKIP+AES mixed GN. And the secondary is the DIR-615 E3 now running ddwrt 14896.
+1 that this should be a sticky or update the client bridge wiki indicating problems with 15778.
Just registered so I could post about this same exact stupid problem as well with my DIR-615 E3.
Only problem I have now is that I can't seem to downgrade to the dd-wrt 14896 version everyone says seems to make wifi repeating work. I've added the code into the end of dd-wrt firmware (AP99-AR7240-RT-091105-01) and it keeps saying the upgrade fails. Firefox and Chrome. Perhaps it might be because I'm running ubuntu and using ghex to edit the file? I doubt it.
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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 0:53 Post subject:
Swashy wrote:
Just registered so I could post about this same exact stupid problem as well with my DIR-615 E3.
Only problem I have now is that I can't seem to downgrade to the dd-wrt 14896 version everyone says seems to make wifi repeating work. I've added the code into the end of dd-wrt firmware (AP99-AR7240-RT-091105-01) and it keeps saying the upgrade fails. Firefox and Chrome. Perhaps it might be because I'm running ubuntu and using ghex to edit the file? I doubt it.
Which exact file are you using? If you already have dd-wrt on there, upgrading or downgrading shouldn't be a problem.
I know right?
On the http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/support/router-database I've downloaded the "dir615e1-firmware.bin" for DIR-615 e3 for the 14896 build. Currently I have the 15778 build and I performed a hard reset before attempting to upload it as well. The upgrade still fails though.
edit: I of course am also using a hard link.
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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 1:11 Post subject:
Adding this into your commands...
insmod ipt_mark
insmod xt_mark
iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -i ! `get_wanface` -d `nvram get wan_ipaddr` -j MARK --set-mark 0xd001
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -m mark --mark 0xd001 -j MASQUERADE
Save Firewall, then reboot, i ask because it seems that since the loopback function was removed from the firewall, these client bridge problems began, which is why it was removed in the first place, because WDS became non-working, once they removed the loopback, WDS supposedly worked, but other modes seemed to suffer. As far as downgrading goes, i have no idea, i would ask, have you tried to flash the build without hex editing it first? _________________ Wireless N Config | Linking Routers | DD-WRT Wiki | DD-WRT Builds | Peacock - Broadcom FAQ
insmod ipt_mark
insmod xt_mark
iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -i ! `get_wanface` -d `nvram get wan_ipaddr` -j MARK --set-mark 0xd001
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -m mark --mark 0xd001 -j MASQUERADE
Save Firewall, then reboot, i ask because it seems that since the loopback function was removed from the firewall, these client bridge problems began, which is why it was removed in the first place, because WDS became non-working, once they removed the loopback, WDS supposedly worked, but other modes seemed to suffer.
I'm sorry, I have no idea what any of this means. I'm assuming I would insert this code to somewhere within the firewall tab of dd-wrt..
buddee wrote:
As far as downgrading goes, i have no idea, i would ask, have you tried to flash the build without hex editing it first?
Wouldn't this risk me bricking my router?
edit:
went ahead and did it and it worked, for some reason. Thanks!
Now only to figure out how the fuck to wirelessly repeat.....
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