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Bridge two Separate Subnets with wireless DD-WRT

Hey everyone. I need a little help.

I have two separate networks (Network A 192.168.62.x, Network B 192.168.63.x both subnetmask 255.255.255.0) and I need to setup a wireless bridge between both of them without changing the subnet info. Both location currently have dd-WRT routers as the primary router in place for internet and DHCP.

I have TWO extra DD-WRT Wireless routers (Linksys WRT54GL) to use as access points for testing, I'd like to get some routers with DD-WRT capable of doing 802.11N after I figure this out.

I've read a bunch about doing standard bridging with these routers and did get a standard bridge setup but was unable to get the routing between the two subnets worked out. Plus I think the setup should be totally different from what I did to get the standard client bridge working.

So with a total of 4 DDWRT Routers (right now all WRT54GL, 2 used as standard routers with LAN Subnets listed above and the Router lan IP's being 192.168.x.1) how can I set this up?

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Sweet, I'll give this a try today and report back. Thanks for the time! I also have another idea I'll be trying out today as well.

I'm pretty shocked how little info there is out there regarding this sort of situation.

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upon further checking of this lab setup I'm able to ping through both networks as long as I'm not pinging over the wireless bridge. It appears that the wireless bridge is causing some routing issues. I'm not sure if this is DD-WRT related or not, I'm going to purchase a couple wireless bridges and test it out further.

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Here is a diagram of the lab test I did. The IP's don't match up from the first post, but that's due to working in the lab and just doing testing.
Google doc link of the diagram

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As this works, it doesn't appear to be perfect routing between subnets since I was only able to ping it's from side of the network. However I was able to access shared folders on each side of the network regardless.

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Okay, replacing the DD-WRT routers with real Wireless Bridges (I used Engenius ENH202 model) I was able to get things working properly with regards to routing and pinging through a single DD-WRT Router to handle the routing between subnets.