I am doing a project. So, I use an openwrt router as an AP, it gets the internet from LAN1, then to WAN via vlan 35. Other ports I think don't support vlan so I choose WAN port for this. I deleted all WAN related interfaces.
This is my /etc/config/network:
root@Zyxel_P-2812:~# cat /etc/config/network
config interface 'loopback'
option device 'lo'
option proto 'static'
option ipaddr '127.0.0.1'
option netmask '255.0.0.0'
config globals 'globals'
option ula_prefix ''
option packet_steering '1'
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 device
option name 'lan1'
option macaddr ''
config device
option name 'lan2'
option macaddr ''
config device
option name 'lan3'
option macaddr ''
config device
option name 'lan4'
option macaddr '
config interface 'lan'
option device 'br-lan'
option proto 'static'
option ipaddr '192.168.1.50'
option netmask '255.255.255.0'
option gateway '192.168.1.1'
option dns '192.168.1.1'
config device
option type '8021q'
option ifname 'wan'
option vid '35'
option name 'wan.35'
config interface 'test'
option proto 'none'
option device 'wan.35'
I don't understand, so if I pick lan2 for example, take it out of br-lan? So then I make lan2.35 right? But I can't make it UP. It always stays down. I assumed it doesn't support VLAN's.
Let me tell you simply, I want just regular AP but lets assume only one client needs it via vlan 35, not the normal way. Which there will be only one client anyway. Internet > Openwrt LAN1 port> to some port with vlan 35 tagged.
Ok, youll need to enable vlans on br-lan
Somebody smarter can tell you how, then do "guest wifi" setup, ie firewall zone, no wifi, then add device brlan.35 which can be tagged or untagged on any port.
Ok, here is my drawing of this issue. I want to replace the laptop with an openwrt router instead. Normally this setup works on the laptop. Laptop is just so huge, also inconveinient. Thats why i want to change it.
Where is the internet in this diagram? Usually the upstream most router (i.e. the one connected to the ISP) is the one that will terminate the PPPoE connection.
Also, why do you have 3 routers in the mix? What purpose does each have in your network?
And going back to the PPPoE -- typically that is only terminated on one router. You usually don't need to propagate the VLAN + PPPoE beyond that first terminating router. And, if you do, it also requires that the ISP allows multiple PPPoE connections on the same account/service line.
The router on the lefr provides the internet. Its a "don't care" situation we dont have anything to do with the left router.
Also you can have a pppoe server running inside your lan. Its a double nat i know but in my case it doesnt matter that much.
I need to test some routers. Normally i could do this with dhcp, but with pppoe its significantly faster for me, also it can pull firmware upgrades on its own. They hardcoded these so it is what it is, cant change that fact. They are set up like that.
So the PPPoE connection is not coming from the ISP? Ok, so sure you can do that. But why? PPPoE has quite a bit of overhead and thus degrades performance while increasing complexity. I totally get it if you're doing this as a home-lab/educational experiment, but I'd say it's unusual and generally undesirable under any other normal circumstances.
That said, where is the PPPoE server and the PPPoE client? Looks like the right most router is the PPPoE client. Does that make the middle router the server? Or is the server coming from either the left hand router or the ISP (if one of these, which is it)?
To be clear, I'm trying to figure out where VLAN 35 originates and where it needs to go. Does it originate at the ISP? At the left router? Middle router?
So if the vlan will originate on the middle router, you only need a single port to participate in that vlan. As such, it should be as simple as removing that port from the bridge and adding it to the network interface that will service that port (with a PPPoE server enabled). Therefore, that interface would have option device ‘lanx.35’ where x is the lan port you plan to use.
Almost done, pppoe server works, but the client on the right, can't get to the internet. Although it gets an IP address from the PPPoE server from the middle router. Totally, ip forwarding issue. How to solve this?
Check to make sure the firewall allows forwarding from the PPPoE server/network to the wan.
Ensure that there are no conflicts/overlaps of the networks and addresses.
That said, I've never setup a PPPoE server, so I don't know if there are other configuration parameters that need to be be setup for it to route properly.
This seems extremely hard tho. I'll just do something else then. Thanks.