hey all,
(hello from the anchorage in La Paz, Mexico!)
I got frustrated dealing with the bugs in my Redport Optimizer setup on my little fulltime-cruising sailboat, threw in the towel, and am trying to build a suitable replacement. I have a WiFiX NEXQ6GO running GoldenOrb_2021-09-29 with a Sierra Wireless MC7455 installed, and I have a new Ubiquiti Bullet M2-HP mounted on my solar arch outside.
What I ultimately want is the ability for me (or less-technical crew) to use the Bullet to connect to open or known-password wireless access points that we can reach from the anchorage, and if that fails, route traffic through the MC7455, which has a GoogleFi sim installed. We cannot use the GoogleFi connection fulltime; we burn through the alotted 22gb/month in under a week every time.
I've got mwan3 setup and configured (I think), but I am struggling with the terminology of "interfaces" in OpenWRT... if I hard-wire the Bullet to my pc I can connect to remote access points and route data that way fine, and if I connect the NEXQ6GO to the pc I see the mc7455 and can connect to the internet through it... but I can't seem to figure out how to get the Bullet attached to the NEXQ6GO in such a way that I can route traffic through it while still being able to log directly into the bullet to change wifi access points. is there somewhere that I can set a route so that my pc can talk directly to the bullet?
I'm pretty sure there's something easy that I'm missing, but there's a lot of moving parts here so I'm getting frustrated again. is my basic premise sound? has anyone built a similar setup? I can't find a tutorial that explains exactly how to configure an upstream router as a member of an mwan3 group...
sorry if this is vague. argh.