hi

i've been searching for a solution how to make lan port 4 act as wan port, as original wan port is probaly fried. i have little knowledge about networking but i still cannot get it to work. please help me.

this is my configuration:

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

config interface 'loopback'
        option ifname 'lo'
        option proto 'static'
        option ipaddr '127.0.0.1'
        option netmask '255.0.0.0'

config interface 'lan'
        option ifname 'eth0'
        option type 'bridge'
        option proto 'static'
        option ipaddr '192.168.1.1'
        option netmask '255.255.255.0'

config interface 'wan'
        option ifname 'eth1'
        option proto 'dhcp'

config switch
        option name 'eth0'
        option reset '1'
        option enable_vlan '1'

config switch_vlan
        option device 'eth0'
        option vlan '1'
        option ports '0 1 2 3 4 5'
root@OpenWrt:~# swconfig dev eth0 vlan 0 show
VLAN 0:
        vid: 0
        ports: 0 5
root@OpenWrt:~# swconfig dev eth0 vlan 1 show
VLAN 1:
        vid: 1
        ports: 0 1 2 3 4 5
root@OpenWrt:~# swconfig dev eth0 vlan 2 show
VLAN 2:
        vid: 2
        ports: 2 5
root@OpenWrt:~# swconfig dev eth0 vlan 3 show
VLAN 3:
        vid: 3
        ports: 3 5
root@OpenWrt:~# swconfig dev eth0 vlan 4 show
VLAN 4:
        vid: 4
        ports: 4 5
root@OpenWrt:~# swconfig dev eth0 vlan 5 show
VLAN 5:
        vid: 5
        ports: 0 1 2 3 4
root@OpenWrt:~# ifconfig
br-lan    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 8A
          inet addr:192.168.1.1  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:21231 errors:0 dropped:9 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:18109 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:2751087 (2.6 MiB)  TX bytes:4352580 (4.1 MiB)

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 8A
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:21666 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:18144 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:3187045 (3.0 MiB)  TX bytes:4354190 (4.1 MiB)
          Interrupt:4

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 3E
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:5

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:31488 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:31488 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:1921440 (1.8 MiB)  TX bytes:1921440 (1.8 MiB)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1367 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:32
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:160939 (157.1 KiB)

running
Router Model Linksys WRT160NL
Firmware Version OpenWrt Attitude Adjustment 12.09 / LuCI 0.11.1 Release (0.11.1)
Kernel Version 3.3.8
http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/linksys/wrt160nl

(Last edited by dukedl on 24 Jul 2013, 19:53)