Internet stops working when I try to change the MAC of the router

[vgaetera]

There's also a bug in LuCI which prevents to assign MAC address properly, though I'm not sure if it is still relevant:

MAC override does not work

so i came across the gotcha ( gotme ) from last time; -make sure that the parameter is applied to the "correct" section in /etc/config/network there is some variance in this between releases and builds but more recent ones seem to apply it under; config interface 'wan' option ifname 'eth0.2' option proto 'dhcp' option delegate '0' **HERE** when it should be; config device 'wan_dev' < **HERE** option name 'eth0.2' option macaddr '00:80:6E:77:77:7X'