Just moved and struggling with a fancier setup on my router. Would appreciate a push in the right direction.
I have a current openwrt router, it's configured as a normal modem>router>WiFi setup. It runs a router wide DNSmasq and https-dns-proxy.
The new location I am living in has a router and WiFi network already set up. I don't like it, because it doesn't have router wide adblock for my TV and other devices.
I want to have my openwrt router wirelessly connect to that current wifi, and then connect my devices to openwrt routers wifi while filtered through the adblock.
I've seen an lot of posts saying to use relayd, but the openwrt documentation says not to nowadays. Other stuff says to use a wds, but it needs to be openwrt on both routers. I can't change anything on the current houses router/wifi either, to set it up for links or such. The homes router and wifi has to just be as it is right now broadcasting a single ssid stuff can connect to
Any advice or help? I'm pretty lost on how to even start. Thanks
No, this is not what you want. It is the right approach when the goal is a transparent repeater/bridge device, but that's not what you need.
You basically just want a standard routed configuration. You will connect to the upstream wifi using a 'wwan' interface (and this will be associated with the wan firewall zone). You'll then create a unique SSID for your devices -- this SSID will be associated with the lan network interface. To get this working in general, you don't need to change much from the default config -- basically just create the upstream wifi connection and the wwan network interface, and you're done. You may need to change the subnet of your lan so that it doesn't conflict with the upstream. Once it is working in general, you can do you DNS and/or adblocking stuff.
Thank you! That link was exactly what I needed, took 5 minutes and I'm up and running. I was far over complicating it, and the links I was finding googling were not helping
