Utilizing ROOTer as a Repeater via Wired + Access Point for Main Router

[serverside]

So I've done this a good bit inside of DD-WRT but never with LEDE/ROOTer and am finding very little on how this is accomplished.

Basically I want to have my main router be DHCP to my second router via Hard Wired connection, then that router also running LEDE/ROOter be Wifi Access Point #2. I do not want to link them via Wifi. I just started looking into this and their doesn't seem to be a bunch of info on the ROOTer side, a little bit with LEDE but it's mostly about extending the network via Wifi connection by using the Scan button in ROOTer/LEDE.

Would like to make this a tutitorial eventually once I figure this out. Going to be messing with it this evening but if others have already done this and can give me some pointers I'd be grateful.

[danielewood]

So, you want ROOter to be LTE+WIFI+DHCP, and you want to reuse a second DD-WRT router you have as an AP only, with an ethernet cable running in between them?

Or are you not talking about using LTE functionality at all, and just wanting a second ROOter AP that is wired to your existing DD-WRT router?

ROOTer is really not a great distro if you are only going for Access Point functionality with a wired back-haul. In that case, I would stick to DD-WRT or the OEM firmware and just disable the DHCP server on that AP.

[serverside]

So, you want ROOter to be LTE+WIFI+DHCP, and you want to reuse a second DD-WRT router you have as an AP only, with an ethernet cable running in between them?

Or are you not talking about using LTE functionality at all, and just wanting a second ROOter AP that is wired to your existing DD-WRT router?

ROOTer is really not a great distro if you are only going for Access Point functionality with a wired back-haul. In that case, I would stick to DD-WRT or the OEM firmware and just disable the DHCP server on that AP.

Well I was hoping to use my second router with lede/rooter but if it's not designed to be a repeater I'll just flash ddwrt to it and use it as the wired switch/AP.

[serverside]

Just FYI if anyone runs into this, flashing from LEDE/ROOTER to the Archer C7 DDWRT requires you to use the factory to DDWRT image, you cannot use the DDWRT base image.