Dynalink DL-WRX36 Askey RT5010W IPQ8072A technical discussion

[cantenna]

Does firmware selector allow embedding of custom files/configuration?

I've never used it. Just previously built custom images for this purpose.

[SiXX]

Firmware Selector

Take a look for yourself. It's fairly straightforward.

[cantenna]

So what's the general consensus, is this a good openwrt router?

I'm about to take ownership of 3 of these, LOL

Reading the thread it really is difficult to draw upon this conclusion

[egc]

I am happy with it for my home but I have only a few clients (the important stuff is wired e.g. server, NAS, desktops, build system but also a few wireless clients e.g. Samsung phones and tablet, laptop with intel AX210 and LG TV) it works fast and stable.

But what is unbeatable is the price

[frollic]

Mine have been rock stable, 200 days uptime, but I use them as APs.

[hnyman]

@cantenna

what's the general consensus, is this a good openwrt router?

I feel that the router is otherwise good, but the weak point is the ath11k radio driver, especially its closed-source firmware blob, which crashes occasionally. (a bit surprisingly, the weak point seems to be wifi clients disconnecting, which may trigger the crash.)

I have uptime varying from weeks to just a few hours.

@frollic

Mine have been rock stable, 200 days uptime, but I use them as APs.

That is actually interesting, because it would point out that newer firmware versions might be more crash-happy than the early ones. Or you just have a wifi config that just happens to be crash-proof. (I use WPA3 and 802.11r WPA2. And I noticed those crashes already in April/May with 2.9.0.1 blob versions )

[frollic]

@hnyman

(I use WPA3 and 802.11r WPA2

I use 11r with WPA2, no WPA3.

[egc]

Only WPA2 + CCMP 128 using 23.05 with 2.9.0.1 driver but stayed on 1835 not tested the new 1890

[tickerguy]

@Tobias

ays ago and I used it as a drop-in replacement for the Netgear WAX206 with OpenWrt that we used as our main router before.

Since then I regularly faced issu

IMHO turn on multicast to unicast mapping on both interfaces and see if that fixes it. There are bugs in the proprietary driver blob which can cause this.

[cantenna]

Hi mate,

Looking at utilizing VLAN on this router. Do you know if the most recent snapshot requires any patching still to enable VLAN usage? Why was the patch required? I had trouble digging info on that.

I am coming from 1900ACS which does have a dedicated switch for VLAN tagging. VLAN tagging is new to me without the use of a dedicated switch in the router.

I already have 6 VLANS deployed here at the home with 5 smart switches. I plan on continuing to use WRT1900ACS as the main. Dynalinks as AP. Really, I am just looking to segregate WiFi on the dynalink and I am not quite sure how to do that because the internal switch component is not there.

Like to get Kids Zon, Office and Guest WiFi networks up and going

@Frollic? your doing something similar I believe?

VLAN best practices for hardware without hardware switch

Hi, My router is a X86 mini-pc with 4 physical i225 NIC (no hardware switch) on OpenWrt 22.03.0-rc6 I uses vlans (very common use case : untagged for my LAN, tagged for IOT/Guest only for dedicated WLANs on my APs) All the tutos/wikis I can read about DSA talk about AP/routers with integrated HW switches with the use of vlan filtering. What is the correct way to use vlans on OpenWrt 22: simply create the new devices/interfaces (e.g lan10 and lan20) with the vlan ID in the device name (it …

The switch menu and VLAN page are missing in several products

This is meaningless without discussing a specific chipset or model. That is the page to configure a conventional switch chip by loading its configuration register bank to set up hardware controlled VLANs in it. It isn't a "VLAN menu". Some devices (especially x86) have a true separate eth port per Ethernet cable, and then there's DSA which I have no experience with.

This is what I'm looking at

Defining an untagged network is as simple as using eth0 (or whichever port).
A tagged network (VLAN) is eth0.x where x is the VLAN ID. So eth0.10 would be VLAN 10 tagged on eth0.

Is it really this easy?Openwrt kernel knows to direct my vlan ID just by doing this alone?

[Crect]

The patch is only important if you want to use multiple VLANs on one wifi interface as with WPA2 Enterprise for example. You can use normal VLANs with the ethernet ports just fine without it.

[cantenna]

Thanks mate, yes, this is what I need.
Can you suggest where I can find .ore info regarding the patch or where I can follow its progression upstream?

I was hoping to deploy a wifi network for guest, IoT and work

[greem]

If your three SSIDs are all different, then they're not VLANs on a WiFi interface/network.

To use a trunk to deliver VLANs to an AP, you just configure the trunk port with eg. lan.1001, lan.1002 etc and then put each wireless network into the corresponding firewall zone with the VLAN.

I'll grab my config in a bit when I'm at a keyboard.

[greem]

@cantenna here you go.

On the router:

config device
	option name 'br-lan'
	option type 'bridge'
	list ports 'lan1'
	list ports 'lan2'
	list ports 'lan3'
	list ports 'lan4'

config bridge-vlan
	option device 'br-lan'
	option vlan '1001'
	list ports 'lan1:u*'
	list ports 'lan2:t'
	list ports 'lan3:u*'
	list ports 'lan4:u*'

config bridge-vlan
	option device 'br-lan'
	option vlan '1002'
	list ports 'lan1:t'
	list ports 'lan2:t'
	list ports 'lan3:t'

config bridge-vlan
	option device 'br-lan'
	option vlan '1003'
	list ports 'lan1:t'
	list ports 'lan2:t'
	list ports 'lan3:t'

config bridge-vlan
	option device 'br-lan'
	option vlan '1004'
	list ports 'lan1:t'
	list ports 'lan2:t'
	list ports 'lan3:t'

config bridge-vlan
	option device 'br-lan'
	option vlan '1005'
	list ports 'lan1:t'
	list ports 'lan2:t'
	list ports 'lan3:t'
...
config interface 'lan'
	option proto 'static'
	option device 'br-lan.1001'
...
config interface 'GUEST'
	option proto 'static'
	option device 'br-lan.1002'
...
config interface 'iot'
	option proto 'static'
	option device 'br-lan.1003'
...etc etc...

so in this case, port lan2 is the trunk port carrying VLAN tags 1001, 1002, 1003, 1004 and 1005 down CAT6 cable to another WRX36 which has the following config:

config device
	option name 'br-lan'
	option type 'bridge'
	list ports 'lan1'
	list ports 'lan2'
	list ports 'lan3'
	list ports 'lan4'
	list ports 'wan'

config bridge-vlan
	option device 'br-lan'
	option vlan '1001'
	list ports 'lan1:t'
	list ports 'lan2:u*'
	list ports 'lan3:u*'
	list ports 'wan:u*'

config bridge-vlan
	option device 'br-lan'
	option vlan '1002'
	list ports 'lan1:t'
	list ports 'lan4:u*'

config bridge-vlan
	option device 'br-lan'
	option vlan '1003'
	list ports 'lan1:t'

config bridge-vlan
	option device 'br-lan'
	option vlan '1004'
	list ports 'lan1:t'

config bridge-vlan
	option device 'br-lan'
	option vlan '1005'
	list ports 'lan1:t'

config interface 'lan'
	option device 'br-lan.1001'
	option proto 'static'
...
config interface 'GUEST'
	option proto 'static'
	option device 'br-lan.1002'
...
config interface 'iot'
	option proto 'static'
	option device 'br-lan.1003'
...etc etc...

Then in /etc/config/wireless we have similar setups at both ends, thus:

config wifi-iface 'default_radio1'
	option network 'lan'
...
config wifi-iface 'wifinet3'
	option network 'GUEST'
...
config wifi-iface 'wifinet4'
	option network 'lan'
...
config wifi-iface 'wifinet6'
	option network 'iot'
...etc etc...

I hope that helps!

[snothub]

I'm also getting stuck here.

Instructions say "Do a ubiformat to both rootfs partitions...", but that fails with "please, first detach mtd18..:"
When I try ubidetach:

admin@DL-WRX36:~# ubidetach -m 18
ubidetach: error!: cannot detach mtd18
           error 16 (Resource busy)

So I'm getting nowhere atm.

Any sound advice to get past this?

[frollic]

@snothub

Any sound advice to get past this?

Searched this thread?
And are you sure you booted openwrt ?

[snothub]

I did search this thread (and www) thoroughly for the errors I'm getting, yes.

I also completed Part 1, Option A ending in the reboot, seemingly ok (twice, double-checked). But I do see that the original web config page is active, so perhaps I didn't boot initramfs image from usb after all.

Edit: after additional FAT32 format, I managed to boot into initramfs image from usb.

[frollic]

@snothub

so perhaps I didn't boot initramfs image from usb after all.

Most definitely not...

[Tobias]

@snothub

Edit: after additional FAT32 format, I managed to boot into initramfs image from usb.

Getting my USB stick FAT32 formatted was also the most time consuming step when I did it. Windows 11 seems to offer only ExFAT and NTFS (but this might also depend on the size of the USB stick). I finally used MacOS to get it formatted properly.

Thanks to @frollic the instructions are now also quite clear and straight forward. It only took me around half an hour to get OpenWrt up and running on my DL-WRX36.