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[evscye]

solved solved solved

[VA1DER]

Hi evscye,

First of all, let's get some extra info: What is the OpenWrt device and what version of OpenWrt is on it?What kind of modem?

A few things:

• Are you sure you're connecting the WAN port on the OpenWrt device to the modem?
• If the above is yes, then I wonder if the ethernet port on your OpenWrt device is simply not recognizing the ethernet device on the modem. Does your OpenWrt device have ethernet lights on its WAN port?
• Cloning the other router's MAC address on to br-lan is not what you want to do - br-lan is the LAN ehternet port switch bridge.

[mk24]

You have to do lan-wan routing to be the first device connected to a modem. For IPv4 there is only one "public" IP address issued by the ISP, so you have to NAT and route all the devices into that one IP.

[eduperez]

How is the ISP router WAN interface configured (DHCP, PPPoE, ...)? Is the OpenWrt device configured the same? Did you clone the MAC address from the ISP router to the LAN or the WAN interface on the OpenWrt router?

[lantis1008]

Can I suggest that deleting your question and not posting the answer is counter productive to the forum that you sought help from?

[iplaywithtoys]

This is the OP's question, retrieved from the publicly-visible edit history, in case anyone else may benefit from it:

@evscye

I setup my OpenWrt router connected to my original router and when connecting the OpenWrt router directly to my modem I cannot connect to the internet. The only way I can currently access the internet via my OpenWrt router is while connected to my original router. I am not sure the exact issue, I originally thought it was due to the mac address on the OpenWrt router differing from the original router so I cloned it to br-lan and any wifi antennas.

The thing is, I am still not getting wifi from the OpenWrt router (while connected to the original router) and before taking my internet down again to attempt to connect my OpenWrt router, I would like to be able to guarantee I will be able to access the internet. From my limited research, I think the OpenWrt router was assigned an IP from my original router which isn't allowing new connections. How would I remedy this?

I might add, br-lan is the only active network interface, wan and wan6 are inactive and have been so from the start. Is this the issue I am having? How would I make these work?