Openwrt Router internet source to wlan interface

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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Hello everyone,

My problem is that my Openwrt Router cannot access the internet despite connected devices being able to. To briefly explain what the setup is. I have a ISP-provided router with 2.4 and 5ghz networks, which functions as the main router. The secondary Openwrt router connects as a client on the 5ghz network of the main one on radio1 and spans a 2.4 subnet (with DHCP) for devices on radio0. I have bridged the client 5 and the hosted 2.4 networks on the Openwrt router. All connected devices (ethernet or wireless) have internet access, however, the router itself does not. I cannot ping or download packages. Do you know how I can set the internet source for the router itself to be the wlan1 interface on radio1?

Thank you in advance!

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Does the openwrt router have a static IP ?

did you enter DNS servers along with the static IP ?

can you for instance ping 8.8.8.8 from the router ?

what does /etc/resolv.conf say ?

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Typical error is that although the clients use DHCP and get the info from the main router, but this secondary router itself has a fixed IP and you have forgot to provide the subnet, gateway (main router) and DNS server address (main router) in the LAN config.

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Thank you for the prompt reply!

  1. OpenWrt has a static IP - 192.168.1.1
  2. I did not provide DNS servers.
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  3. I can actually ping openwrt.org 
PING openwrt.org (139.59.209.225): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 139.59.209.225: seq=0 ttl=51 time=28.078 ms
64 bytes from 139.59.209.225: seq=1 ttl=51 time=32.060 ms
64 bytes from 139.59.209.225: seq=2 ttl=51 time=33.734 ms
64 bytes from 139.59.209.225: seq=3 ttl=51 time=31.072 ms
64 bytes from 139.59.209.225: seq=4 ttl=51 time=28.285 ms

--- openwrt.org ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 28.078/30.645/33.734 ms
  1. This is the content of resolv.conf
search lan
nameserver 127.0.0.1

I guess the problem is only that I cannot update and install software packages. Here is an output from the console:

root@192.168.1.1:~# opkg update
Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/19.07.3/targets/ipq40xx/generic/packages/Packages.gz
Failed to establish connection
*** Failed to download the package list from http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/19.07.3/targets/ipq40xx/generic/packages/Packages.gz

Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/19.07.3/targets/ipq40xx/generic/kmods/4.14.180-1-fa00c1231ac7d7840ec6ffe62dcad926/Packages.gz
Failed to establish connection
*** Failed to download the package list from http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/19.07.3/targets/ipq40xx/generic/kmods/4.14.180-1-fa00c1231ac7d7840ec6ffe62dcad926/Packages.gz
...
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If you look at the current forum discussion, you could notice that there is major trouble with the OpenWrt download site at the moment...

Several threads about it.

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I was not aware of this. I assumed it was a problem on my end.

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Examples from the last few hours:

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I had a similar problem with my openwrt wlan-ap and it got solved by adding a gateway to the /etc/config/network file.
something like option gateway <ROUTER-IP>.
but as I said it was a problem with an wlan-ap, not a router.
I think if you are not able to ping something, the problem is not the site itself, so maybe you try that.

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