I'm reposting this question I asked on the Network Engineering SE, bacause I have been redirected to Super User.
I have successfully set up two Linksys routers running DD-WRTv24 to do WDS. They have the same SSID, but different static local IP addresses. There is no security: it's just for testing; no Internet connection.
When I open my notebook, I see the SSID shared by the routers in the list of WiFi access points, and I can connect to it. Once connected, I can ping both routers' local IP addresses, so I know that the WDS is working. But I can't find a way to find out which of them I have actually connected to.
I wouldn't like to have different SSIDs, because I plan to have the access points hand-off users to one another, and I want it to be transparent for the users. I configured one AP to distribute DHCP IP addresses in one range, and the other in another range, so I can discover which AP I connected to at first, but I want a way to discover which AP I'm connected to now, so that I can find out whether the hand-off actually occurred.