Set the Airport Extreme to Bridge Mode (No routing).Now connect to the Airport Extreme with Airport utility.#sudo dhcrelay -i wlp2s0 -i enp0s25 -d.Start parprouted in debug mode so that we can make sure all is well.My wired interface is enp0s25 and my wifi interface is wlp2s0.To make life easier, assign a static IP to the wired interface. Ensure that both the wired and wifi connections are up and running.The dhcp-helper app mentioned in the the Debian Wiki seems to be hard to find, so I looked for an alternate relay and found the ISC dhcrelay command which does the same thing and is part of the dhcpd package for Arch. So we need to set up a dhcp relay to forward DHCP requests between the networks and also enable reflection for the avahi-daemon. Parprouted will take care of the proxy arp but not the DHCP broadcasts as well as Avahi/Bonjour stuff that some of the doodahs use/need. This will put the parprouted binary into the /usr/local hierarchy Extract the tarball and do a "make all" and "make install". So I thought I will do this with proxy arp so that everything would be transparent on the wifi side as well as on the wired side.įirst thing is to grab parprouted ( Parprouted) which automates the adding and removal of static routes on the HTPC box(bridge). I also have a weird connman setup to manage the wifi connection. We could use the bridge-utils tools to do this but I thought it was too much of a hassle adapting the instructions for bridge-utils () to the Arch way of doing networking. Now we need to set up the HTPC box (running Arch Linux) to "bridge" the wifi and ethernet connections. So I hooked up the wired connection to the airport extreme's "wan/uplink" port. Then I realised that the HTPC has both a wired and wifi connection. Tried WDS and an old version of the airport utility to see if I could hack that set up but no joy.
I wanted to originally use the Airport Extreme to extend the wifi network but being an Apple device, it refused to work with the ASUS router. The HT rack is across the room from my router (ASUS RT-AC68U) and the only way to connect up these machines to the network was to run an ethernet cable from the router across to the rack and then use the airport extreme to connect up all the doodahs to wifi. I have a bunch of ethernet only gadgets in the Home Theater rack including the Emotiva XMC, my Tatasky Set Top Box and a couple of other knick knacks.
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