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Title: Using DIR-645 as a Bridge to Lan Devices
Post by: KaytoBoi on April 04, 2012, 02:45:50 PM

Hi all,

First time post yayyy...

Well I just wanted to know if anyone has managed to setup a bridge to Lan devices.
Here's my current setup.

I have a active internet line that connects to a pfSense Firewall Router.

The pfSense will act as the DHCP server. Directly from the pfSense there's a Netgear switch with the DIR-645 connected.

I have disabled the DHCP server on the DIR-645 in hopes that my pfSense Router would assign IP's but to no avail :(.

I just wanted to know if there was any particular setting I could apply to get this working.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Title: Re: Using DIR-645 as a Bridge to Lan Devices
Post by: FurryNutz on April 04, 2012, 02:47:46 PM

Using LAN to LAN connections?
Bridge mode is not supported on these routers.

Bridge Mode vs Relay vs Acess Point (AP) / Routers vs Dedicated Acess Points (AP) (http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=50738.0)

Title: Re: Using DIR-645 as a Bridge to Lan Devices
Post by: KaytoBoi on April 04, 2012, 02:50:33 PM

Awesome I'll try making it an Ap now :D

Thanks for the quick reply

Title: Re: Using DIR-645 as a Bridge to Lan Devices
Post by: philled on April 26, 2013, 07:20:52 PM

I just bought one of these wireless routers and hadn't considered that you couldn't set them up in bridged mode. I read the link at http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=50738.msg188443#msg188443 (http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=50738.msg188443#msg188443) and found it all pretty confusing.

The original poster never came back to say what he did to solve his issue. Does anyone know how to set this device up so that it's not doing any DHCP etc? I just want my wireless devices to connect through this router out to my switch and then the internet through my Smoothwall server (pretty much like the OP except I'm using Smoothwall instead of pfSense).

Title: Re: Using DIR-645 as a Bridge to Lan Devices
Post by: FurryNutz on April 26, 2013, 07:25:15 PM

Turning a router into an AP. (http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=40856.0)