Did connecting your notebook not work?
Yes, that should be WAN, but since you configured three NICs for OpenWrt, I'm unsure which one has become WAN. OpenWrt defaults to a DHCP client for WAN, but your output from ip addr did not list any IP address on the WAN interface.
it did work last time, I setup pfsense, but I don't have a USB-ethernet adapter right now.
third interface was by mistake.
this mini PC has only two NICs.
current setup
Let's go one step back: What is your actual goal?
You can, of course, reconfigure the LAN interface to get an IP in the 192.168.8.0/24 range, but since OpenWrt provides a DHCP server by default, you will probably end up having two DHCP servers in your network.
right now I just want to set up this OpenWRT VM for testing 24.10.
so I am fine with two DHCP servers for testing OpenWRT only. this isn't for production use right now.
Well, then you're done. OpenWrt is up and running.
but I need to access Luci from WAN side/ without plugging in the second NIC.
Well, if you have a single nic, it will be lan by default - if you changed that, you will have to change the firewall as well.
config rule
option src 'wan'
option name 'http from WAN'
option proto 'tcp'
option dest_port '80'
option target 'ACCEPT'
config rule
option src 'wan'
option name 'https from WAN'
option proto 'tcp'
option dest_port '443'
option target 'ACCEPT'
Paste is not a feature within the lxc console of Proxmox VE itself. To use paste, you have to use a telnet/ssh client like Visual Studio or something.
You can paste into the Proxmox VE server console, just not the lxc client console.
this is a chicken and egg issue.
I am looking for access from the wan side/proxmox side.
should I ssh from Proxmox VE itself?
I cannot answer that about ssh from the PVE shell but my personal preference is to use MS Visual Studio as the SSH client on my desktop. I used to be big into Putty as the ssh application of choice but VS can do a lot so I switched.
I do not ssh from the PVE instance to anywhere. Cant say it is right or wrong, just not how I go about ssh access.
From the lcx interface you could just manually type out what you showed, that is not an overly large amount of typing.
I was able to ssh from PVE shell.
but the only text editor available is vi in which I am not proficient enough.
https://www.cs.colostate.edu/helpdocs/vi.html
should I add those rules before this
Updated : Forgot you are trying to edit from within OpenWRT.
This is easier.. This is where I got my steps and they work great.
Specifically post 8
Post 8 for WAN web access and nano editor install
I already mentioned that you do not have a valid IP on your WAN interface, so the Internet can't work.
Please post the contents of /etc/config/network of the OpenWrt machine to see your network config.
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 'fd6f:c316:b5be::/48'
config device
option name 'br-lan'
option type 'bridge'
list ports 'eth0'
config interface 'lan'
option device 'br-lan'
option proto 'static'
option ipaddr '192.168.1.1'
option netmask '255.255.255.0'
option ip6assign '60'
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Oh yeah, there is no WAN. Did you boot the VM with just one NIC for the first time?
Anyway, you need to add a WAN interface to the config file. As an alternative, a factory reset should recreate the file with WAN.
x86 ext4 has factory reset option? could you please elaborate how to do that?