Hello,
I while back I attempted to set up a raspberry pi as a wifi router. I managed but don't really know why, so I broke it trying to understand it and now I need to build it up again (reinstall). Thinking of doing it right this time according to my setup.
After installing latest OpenWrt to a sd card I connect it to my pc with a ethernet cable and my pc get an IP. Not really what I want, but I need some help understanding the "br-lan". It is set up so that it makes a bridge between eth0 and wlan0 as far as I can tell, and handing out IPs on both interfaces. To all wifi clients that might connect and to the single client connecting to the ethernet port. Not what I want.
I only want it to hand out IP to clients connecting to wlan0, and eth0 should be a DHCP client so I can plug it into my home network that already has a DHCP server for update and configure this device.
Should I delete br-lan all together?
In the end there are three interfaces that I need:
- wlan0 as a AP with DCHP server allowing clients to connect with password and get a IP from the pi
- eth0 as a DHCP client so I can plug it into my home network for update and config
- eth1 is the usb 4g modem after drivers are installed. wifi clients should get internet from this interface
What I have tried to do is to connect it to my pc since the OpenWrt will by default act as a dhcp server handing out ips. I then removed br-lan interface and added a new interface called "LAN2" with the eth0 device and DHCP client setting.
I save and loose connection. I then try to plug it to my home network that already has a DHCP. It should work as a DHCP client? But something is wrong and the device does not show. I try to scan my network but no device in the DHCP range.