After 15+ years of working with DD-WRT, I just started migrating to OpenWRT (despite the 6 hours I spent today figuring this problem out, I’m still never looking back!).
Anyway, I put the latest and greatest v24.10.0 on a Linksys EA8500, and despite a million things I tried it refused to take an ip address on the WAN port. Put that same version on an Asus RT-N66U, and it worked fine with the same default settings.
Eventually discovered that I had to change the bridge-ports on the EA8500 as shown in the pictures, then it worked great.
Are the changes I made the correct way to get this to work? Why did I have to change the default at all?? (did not need to change anything on the RT-N66U).
What specifically are you trying to achieve in terms of changes from the default config.
OpenWrt uses DSA for many targets now, including your EA8500. This means there is a different method of configuring bridges and bridge-vlans.... what you're showing doesn't look entirely out of the ordinary, but I'm not sure what you are trying to do, so I don't want to say "yes, it's okay" or "no, it's broken" until I understand more of the context.
What specifically are you trying to achieve in terms of changes from the default config.
All I am trying to do is make it work like a normal home router (I apologize, there is probabaly a better term to describe that).
I want the WAN port to get a DHCP address from my ISP, and then I want the router to assign 192.168.1.xxx addresses to all the devices on the LAN ports and "share" the ISP's internet connection with the other devices.
For a "DSA" device like my EA8500, what is the procedure for configuring the device to work like a normal, home router?
I did some more digging, and I think this is related to a known issue referenced here and and here
seems related to incorrect mac addresses assigned to the wan...
well the good news is that the problem wasnt all in my head! those links describe a workaround that is probably more straightforward than the bridge-port workaround I stumbled upon.
yes, thats what all the documentation and info I found said to do, and so thats what i tried to do... but it seems I was stymied by this wan mac problem.
? not sure what you mean. I originally did everything with the defaults. Fresh install, everything reset to default, etc. But the WAN refused to accept an ip address.
then i discover (issue 15585) that there does seem to be a problem, for this specific router, regarding WAN mac addresses.
If I'm doing something wrong, please let me know what.
Do you still think I should keep everything at default, and it should work?
ok, I did finally figure out how to make this work, but it has nothing to do with bridge-ports. so to prevent muddying the waters I am closing this thread and creating a new one.
