TP-Link RE450 v3 as wired Access Point

[4L3XK]

Hello people of the wireless freedom,

I am trying to get a TP-Link RE450 V3 running as a wired access point without its own DHCP server. I want it to forward DHCP and DNS and everything else ("dumb ap").

As far as I understand changes from the original state should be something like this:

• connect via LAN cable to Luci
• enable W-LAN interfaces
• connect via W-LAN to Luci
• set static IP for the LAN interface
• disable DHCP server on LAN interface

What else am I missing?

How to tell the system to use the eth0 interface to route the wireless traffic.

Here is my current configs, these are the stock configs after reseting the device:

root@OpenWrt:~# cat /etc/config/wireless 

config wifi-device 'radio0'
	option type 'mac80211'
	option channel '36'
	option hwmode '11a'
	option path 'pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0'
	option htmode 'VHT80'
	option disabled '1'

config wifi-iface 'default_radio0'
	option device 'radio0'
	option network 'lan'
	option mode 'ap'
	option ssid 'OpenWrt'
	option encryption 'none'

config wifi-device 'radio1'
	option type 'mac80211'
	option channel '11'
	option hwmode '11g'
	option path 'platform/ahb/18100000.wmac'
	option htmode 'HT20'
	option disabled '1'

config wifi-iface 'default_radio1'
	option device 'radio1'
	option network 'lan'
	option mode 'ap'
	option ssid 'OpenWrt'
	option encryption 'none'

root@OpenWrt:~# cat /etc/config/network 

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 'fdd3:72f0:e802::/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'

[frollic]

if WLAN and eth0 are both lan, you shouldn't have to to anything else.

Wireless Access Point / Dumb Access Point / Dumb AP

Note, if your device has been converted to DSA, the config snippets in the wiki will be incorrect.

[4L3XK]

Next day I tried again and succeeded within minutes.
I guess the automatic reversion messed me up. When I wait 30sec for it to pass and then apply unchecked everything went fine.

[tmomas]

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