Very strange request, but is it possible to create a dumb ap on a router while the router stays a router? If I had a router with OpenWRT that i want to use as a regular router, but wanted to create a wireless or wired network for guests or IoT and have it pass through the router to the up-link router for IP, internet, etc. on a VLAN, while the remaining ports and wireless networks connect to the device like they normally would, is this at all possible? I have tried experimenting with setting up unmanaged interfaces on a VLAN to go upstream, but i get no connection.
Yes. Start by setting the device up as a bridged ap. Then, add the routing capability with the guest wifi on a dumb ap recipe.
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/wifiextenders/bridgedap
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/guestwifi/guestwifi_dumbap
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okay, I will give it a try. I have an upstream router 1 with VLANs A & B. I have another router 2 connected to router 1. I want VLANs A & B from router 1 to pass through router 2 on specific ports or on an SSID, while i can still use Router 2 as a regular router for IoT and testing.
I setup a br-wan to accept the VLANs on router 2. I can get an IP address on the br-wans from the upstream router 1 with the correct IP addresses for the VLAN, but i can figure out how to create a pasthrough.
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