HI all, newbie be here. Sorry if this is a dumb question.
I have Virgin media UK has my ISP with a cable SuperHub2 AC router and I am having problems accessing the internet with the BT Hub5 with OpenWRT. I put the Virgin router in to modem mode and on the BT Hub setup a new wan interface with a static IP and DNS on the wan port of the BT Hub, firewall profile to wan but I cannot get out to the web. Am I doing something wrong, please help.
Assumptions: you want to use the WAN port, not DSL, for your uplink you're using a LuCI newer than commit 3ea9c85e (mid-Aug 2016) meaning you see LAN 1 – LAN 4; either you're annoyed that you can't see port 5, or you're annoyed at the UI not matching the labelled port you can edit config files, probably via (serial or SSH) CLI access you've made a backup copy of /etc/board.json already, or you're confident you can regenerate defaults using /etc/board.d/* later
Replace /etc/board.json with the following. Note that by doing this, you're not configuring anything. /etc/board.json is only meant to describe hardware properties and defaults. The changes to roles and network are just for internal consistency. Nonetheless, you should put your own unit's MAC address in network:*:macaddr.
Hi mate your wan on the hh needs to be in dhcp moad . That will let your VM hub give the BT HH a IP adress. By changing the VM hub in to modem moad it stops being a router and acts just as a modem. If you reset openwrt on the BT HH it will work with the VM hub rite out of the box. Leve the firewall settings as they come unless you know what you are doing.
you want to use the WAN port, not DSL, for your uplink