Idiot's guide to a setting up a wireless AP

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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First time doing any DIY home networking - a fun experience, but sometimes challenging.

I would like some help setting up a GLiNet B3000 (marble) flashed with openwrt snapshot. I have had some real woes with softbricking this over and over again because of configuration errors. Obviously, the GLiNet supplied firmware is very different to openwrt.

I plan to have this device with a wired backhaul to my Flint 2 router through a VLAN-capable switch. The Flint2 is currently working well. I have three VLANs currently: 1 (main LAN), 10, (IOT), 30 (guest). 1 is broadcast through a 2.4GHz and 5GHz wifi; the other two are broadcast on 2.4GHz networks alone.

I think the general framework of what I need to do is:

  1. Static IP allocation
  2. Turn off DHCP (how is this done? In the Interfaces - lan, DHCP server - general -setup there is the option to 'ignore interface' but then in DHCP server - IPV4 settings there is an option to disable dhcpv4 services (odhcpd only) - I am confused.
  3. Enable VLAN filtering on br-lan (LAN1 will be set to tagged for all three VLANs)

Then I get confused at this point with the creation of devices and interfaces. Please can some kind soul walk me through the basic steps of actioning what I need?

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https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/wifiextenders/bridgedap ?

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  1. easiest is to set existing lease to static
  2. yes you can double-disable ir
  3. only consideration is to not knock yourself away
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