Router as switch & AP (works) - how to connect to download packages?

Installing and Using OpenWrt Network and Wireless Configuration
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Hi all,

These are my first steps with OpenWrt and networking past the basic stuff, so I'll hope you will bear with me. Any help is appreciated.

Using instructions on OpenWrt.org I have turned an 'old' TP-Link TL-WR1043ND v2 router in a switch (link) and bridged Access Point (link). This works well.

But now I want to take it one step further and see if I can use this router as an (Wireguard) VPN server. I am however stuck at the step on downloading packages. From the router itself I have no route to the internet (I can ping to IP's within my network, but not outside). This is probably quite trivial, but I can't seem to find the right information to do this. Can someone point me into the right direction?

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Got to the interface settings of lan and enter gateway and dns ip address.
This is normally the ip of your router with internet connection.

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Thanks @juppin!
I had the gateway address correct, but no DNS IP address. :upside_down_face:

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