Extend Wifi mode not reachable?

[StanDaManHI]

I configured my 1800ax in extender mode so I can have some machines that have no wireless to my wireless network. It seems to work partially, I can ping from those machines out to the rest of the network, but can’t ping from those network to them. As if the Slate is acting like a firewall. I can no longer reach the management interface once its in extender mode. Any ideas?

Thanks
Stan

[wcs2228]

The problem sounds like the same as in this thread for a different router model, but without a complete solution. Extender network mode works on the same principle in OpenWRT:

Slate AX wifi bridge blocks access to connected clients

I am trying to set up a new Slate AX running 4.03 firmware to act as a wifi bridge, and have run into a problem where the Slate AX is blocking access to clients connected to the AX’s LAN ports. What I am trying to accomplish is this: I have two astronomical devices (telescope mount and a Raspberry Pi running Astroberry) that do not have wifi, only wired ethernet connections. I want to use the Slate AX to connect those two devices to the AX’s LAN ports, and they connect to the home’s wifi throug…

OpenWRT Extender network mode uses relayd that has a separate LAN interface subnet will be used only as a “management” interface:

The LAN interface subnet will be used only as a “management” interface, as devices connecting to the Wi-Fi repeater will be on the main network’s subnet instead. If the relayd device becomes unreachable, you will have to configure a PC with a static address in the same subnet as the LAN interface (eg. 192.168.2.10 for our example) to connect and be able to use LuCI GUI or SSH.

RELAYD - Historically used as a Wi-Fi extender

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