Hello I am new here and really enjoying OPENWRT and I think it is great and I just have a few questions is this the only way to connect to the router once DHCP has been disabled?
I went about configuring my device to act as a dumb ap though I was unable to get it to work according to the online manual so I used the WAN and LAN bridged them through the WI-FI and completely disabled the DHCP it was working perfectly. I could see that my firewall was doing a great job working with OPENWRT after a reboot I noticed that I could no longer connect to the device. The device was working great except for that little problem. I tried a few things and I eventually reset my device.
The device I am using only has 2 ports a LAN, WAN and wireless itβs a Google Onhub TP Link Thank you in advance
The DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 server instances (usually) must be disabled, you can configure your AP to be a DHCP client though (documentation often avoids this, as many users will then have problems to find/ identify their AP's IP).
Thanks for the super fast reply. I went through and did the same thing over again except I made a static IP for my laptop and so far I have been able to login after a reboot with DHCP turned off. I made the static address because under interfaces-edit-DHCP Server-Advanced settings. There is a box called Dynamic DHCP and I was turning that off as well and below the checkbox it says: Dynamically allocate DHCP addresses for clients. If disabled only clients that have static leases will be served. I was not sure actually the effect of unchecking the box but either it was a coincidence or making a static address solved the problem. Thanks again.
I do have OPENWRT installed on the device. The problem I had was making it a dumb ap. As soon as I did that I was unable to log into the device. I will mark it solved sorry.