Linksys EA8300 Wireless Bridge

Installing and Using OpenWrt Network and Wireless Configuration
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I recently flashed a Linksys EA8300 Router with OpenWRT 22.05 to use it as a Wireless Bridge to provide connectivity to Wired only clients. The EA8300 connects to the main Wireless Router via Wifi. I absolutely don't want to use relayd because of horrible performance issues as commonly reported.

Configuration wise, the EA8300 is connected to the Main Wireless Router over Wifi and gets its IP Address on the WWLAN0 Interface.

  • Main Router's Default Gateway and DNS Servers are set to 192.168.1.1, the firewall zones have been configured to allow everything between WLAN and LAN.
  • There are no IP conflicts as the IPs assigned to wired PC clients are outside of the DHCP range. I even tried to use a different subnet for the wired clients but it didn't work.
  • The wired PCs are not able to ping 192.168.1.1, or even the 192.168.1.10 (wwlan0) address. Running Diagnostics within LuCI, the EA8300 is able to ping openwrt.org and 192.168.1.1 just fine.

In summary, the Wireless Interface (ip: 192.168.1.10), and br-lan (ethernet ports) are not communicating.

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Ok,

So I'm guessing you meant 23.05 not 22.05?
Have you static assigned the ip on the EA8300, or is this set to DHCP and you lock the mac address to 192.168.1.10 on the Main Router?

I'm going to ask have you followed:
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/wifiextenders/bridgedap

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Hummm...we need to see the configuration of the EA8300.

Please connect to your OpenWrt device using ssh and copy the output of the following commands and post it here using the "Preformatted text </> " button:
grafik
Remember to redact passwords, MAC addresses and any public IP addresses you may have:

ubus call system board
cat /etc/config/network
cat /etc/config/wireless
cat /etc/config/dhcp
cat /etc/config/firewall
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Hi.
I have a close case of configuration, and I use WDS to link both wifi devices. It's easy to configure and performances are good. Do you have WDS server on the main router?
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/wifiextenders/wds