How to connect GL-AR300M and NanoPi R2S?

Routers
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Hello everyone.

Please tell me how to connect two routers GL-AR300M-Ext + NanoPi R2S ?
NanoPi R2S is a gigabit router (single board) without WIFI and GL-AR300M-Ext is a WI-FI router that should distribute a signal (internet)

Do I understand correctly that for everything to work I should connect like this?

internet => [WLAN] NanoPI R2S [LAN] + (LAN) GL-AR300M-Ext => WI-FI

Then go to the GL-AR300M router using HTTP the browser 192.168.2.1 In the router menu Network => Interfaces => LAN change the ip address so that it does not match the ip address of NanoPi R2S ?

Will this be enough for this scheme to work?

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I am assuming your WLAN is an Ethernet connection into the R2S. Is that correct?

Depending on the firmware version on your AR300M, it may have an Access point mode that you can select. The issue is, once you turn on Access Point mode, you loose contact with the AR300m. What firmware are you using on your AR300m?

What I would recommend trying is to leave the AR300M in router mode, and connect a cable between the AR300M WAN port and the R2S. This will give a double NAT, but is the easiest to setup, as the WAN port on the AR300M will ask for a DHCP address from your R2S. By default the AR300M will then use the 192.168.8.1 network for the WIFI.

Once that is working, you can then play with the Access Point mode.

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Thank you very much for your answer.

I guess my question should have been divided into two parts:

  1. How to connect two routers.

  2. How to set up two routers so that one of them is an access point.

You are right, WAN in NanoPi R2S is the Internet. I use OpenWRT in two routers.

Why I use this scheme, the answer is very simple, since NanoPi R2S is a gigabit router, and GL-AR300M-Ext has only 128 Mb, which is very little for installing a certain number of programs + load on the processor during operation. 1Gb DDR4 in NanoPi R2S is very cool))

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I would connect the two routers with a short Ethernet cable, using the LAN port on the R2S to the WAN port on the AR300M. Leave the AR300M in its default Router mode and see if it works as a WIFI bridge.

If this works, it would be better to switch the AR300m to AP mode, but GL iNet has not released 4.x documentation for the AR300m explaining how to do this. You may want to email their support.

I agree with you that the R2S looks great. I am looking at a R5C that has 4 fast ARM cores, 4GB RAM, 32GB of EMMC, and a HDMI port in a package not much bigger then your AR300m. I can run a full version of Debian on it.

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Thank you very much for your recommendation, I will try and write feedback