Networking – Running a DHCP Server on DD-WRT in “Repeater Bridge” mode

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I am currently running a Linksys WRT160N router on DD-WRT set up as a "Repeater Bridge". It currently serves to rebroadcast my Virgin Mobile MiFi's WiFi through this router, hence broadcasting a more powerful signal. The issue I have is sometimes the computers connected to the DD-WRT router take a while to fully connect as the DHCP is delayed for some reason as it is coming from the MiFi and the requests are all forwarded, etc. It significantly delays everything.

What I am wondering is if there is a way to get a DHCP server running on this DD-WRT router in "Repeater Bride" mode or a mode with an identical function, that way I can turn the DHCP Off on the MiFi and the delay will be eliminated.

Any thoughts are useful, Thanks c:

Best Answer

Alright guys, I figured out a back way of doing this that surprisingly the internet tutorials said NOT to do.

Once the device was 30/30/30 reset, I followed the directions at http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Repeater but modified a couple of things under the "Basic Setup" tab.

Note that my MiFi (In this case Primary router) is "192.168.0.1" using the Subnet "255.255.255.0".

The Basic Settings of my Secondary (DD_WRT Router):

Local IP Address: 192.168.1.1
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 
Gateway: 192.168.0.1
DNS: 192.168.1.1

And being "Repeater" mode has DHCP Enabled, the Secondary router handles DHCP (And as it says up there, DNS. I forwarded that to Google's DNS servers at 8.8.4.4 and 8.8.8.8 for reliably.)

In this setup the LAN and WLAN on the Secondary router all operate normally as they would, and I can access the 192.168.0.* and 192.168.1.* subnets when connected to the secondary router.

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