Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2019 13:37 Post subject: WRT32X no WAN connection running DD-WRT
I have tried different builds of DD-WRT to the WRT32X, but they all are orange on the WAN connection and can’t connect. If I try using OpenWRT or Linksys OS it works fine and connect the WAN.
My WAN connection is a Fiber/CAT6 direct from at switch in the apartments basement I live in. First, I fourth it was the DD-WRT that had issue connect to the switch, so I found my old Linksys WRT54 and installed DD-WRT on that, but i connects fine, the WAN port works. Then I connected the new WRT32X (WAN) the old WRT54 (LAN) and it worked, so the WAN port in DD-WRT works.
I have tried to manually set in all the IP connection data but still not connection. Have tried with a cross cable also same problem no connection and WAN is orange.
Now I have Built 40189 installed. Others had the problem or am I alone?
Joined: 04 Aug 2018 Posts: 1447 Location: Appalachian mountains, USA
Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2019 16:26 Post subject:
I won't be much help if the problem is deeper than this, but the first thing I'd check is that the IP addresses being assigned by your apartment building's system are not in the same subnet as the DHCP system on your dd-wrt router. If your router is at 192.168.1.1 as shown at the top of the GUI>Setup>BasicSetup Network Setup section, then you will be in trouble if the building is assigning your WAN port an IP address of the form 192.168.1.X. If this is what's happening, you can change your router to be on 192.168.11.1 or whatever. Just make sure that third number differs from what their system is giving your WAN port.
I'm not completely sure what the best way is to see what IP range the building's system is using. (Anyone?) But I suppose, if you are brave enough to assume the building system has a reasonable firewall, you could plug their ethernet into your computer instead of the router, just long enough to look and see what IP address their system is assigning. _________________ 2x Netgear XR500 and 3x Linksys WRT1900ACSv2 on 53544: VLANs, VAPs, NAS, station mode, OpenVPN client (AirVPN), wireguard server (AirVPN port forward) and clients (AzireVPN, AirVPN, private), 3 DNSCrypt providers via VPN.
Thanks for the advice, to follow up on the guide given, I can tell following
When the router is running OpenWRT I can see all the IP info given and it 100.108.110.XXX so it not in the range that what DD-WRT is setup, have also tried to give it 192.168.2.1 and not 192.168.1.1 as it standard, but still no connection the WAN.
I have not tried with another cable, but don’t think it’s the issue, as it works when runs OpenWRT and Linksys OS. Guess if it is the cable, it shouts also have problems with the other OS.
I have a serial so I can start the router up on terminal mode if a boot-up log can give some information?
Sorry to first reply now, I did try the following command and got following reply below.
---- START ----
BusyBox v1.31.0 (2019-07-04 03:18:02 CEST) built-in shell (ash)
root@DD-WRT:~# ifconfig
ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 60:38:E0:C3:7C:AA
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)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:65536 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:1
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
root@DD-WRT:~# swconfig dev switch0 show
Global attributes:
enable_vlan: 0
Port 0:
mask: 0x004e: (0) 1 2 3 6
qmode: 0
pvid: 0
link: port:0 link:down
Port 1:
mask: 0x004d: 0 (1) 2 3 6
qmode: 0
pvid: 0
link: port:1 link:down
Port 2:
mask: 0x004b: 0 1 (2) 3 6
qmode: 0
pvid: 0
link: port:2 link:down
Port 3:
mask: 0x0047: 0 1 2 (3) 6
qmode: 0
pvid: 0
link: port:3 link:up speed:1000baseT full-duplex
Port 4:
mask: 0x0020: (4) 5
qmode: 0
pvid: 0
link: port:4 link:up speed:1000baseT full-duplex
Port 5:
mask: 0x0010: 4 (5)
qmode: 0
pvid: 0
link: port:5 link:up speed:1000baseT full-duplex
Port 6:
mask: 0x000f: 0 1 2 3 (6)
qmode: 0
pvid: 0
link: port:6 link:up speed:1000baseT full-duplex
root@DD-WRT:~#
-------- END -----
As I read it says that 4 ports are open, but is that the LAN ports? as it have numbers from 0 to 6 what is number is USB and WAN
Joined: 30 May 2017 Posts: 582 Location: Rural Manitoba
Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2019 4:01 Post subject: NO WAN
I apologize for being an interloper here, but I have been watching the forum and your problems are interesting. I did a telnet into my primary router (3200) and ran the config commands as you did. What I noticed is the absence of your WAN connection should appear right after the loopback description. I run PPPoE and as you were told Port 4 appears to be the WAN as it is speed is 100 where the lan ports are 1000. It is obvious that the port is live but there is no connection. I did not see in your notes what type of connection you are using. When I converted from WRT54g -> wrt1200 ->wrt1990 -> wrt3200 I never changed my setup and have never had problems connecting. The only thing I have noticed with my WAN is every time I do a upgrade I have to reboot before my WAN connects even though the upgrade did a reboot. Otherwise without knowing your connection type I have no suggestions but thought I would mention that the 3200 WAN config for me has never changed. _________________ Starlink & DSL -> TPLink TL-R470T+
->
WRT3200acm Master WDS 5GHz 80Mhz CH 100 (+6) r55819
Ath1 2.4Ghz Disabled
99 Static Leases
ExpressVPN
WRT3200acm r55819 WDS Station 5Ghz
Ath1 AP N/G Mixed Channel 11 HT40
WRT1900Ac V1 5Ghz r55819 WDS Station
(Defective, no 2.4Ghz but 5Ghz works great)
WRT1900AC V1 5Ghz AC 80Mhz WDS Station r55819
2.4Ghz AP Ch1 HT20 Mixed
WRT1900ACS SPARE r54914
WRT1900AC SPARE r54914
WRT1900AC V1 5Ghz AC 80Mhz WDS-AP r55819
2.4Ghz AP Ch1 HT20 Mixed
WRT54G DD-WRT v3.0-r37305 micro AP CH 6 Mixed - Not in use
Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2019 7:59 Post subject: ON WAN
Thanks for you input and your welcome. My connection is a direct patch from a fiber switch in the apartment building I live in, the line is 1000MB CAT6 and I have CAT6 cable all the way to my router. Have also tried with at CAT5 cable but still no connection. Case here is my router is WRT32X and not WRT3200 as you have. I have read in the other post here that some have install the 3200 version on there 32X and it worked, so I think I will give that a test when I have the spare time. The strange thing is that when I run the Linksys OS or OpenWRT it works and can connect to the WAN port.
@per Thanks a lot for your help I have tried to google pvid 0 and as the big internet I brows to a lot of pages about Citrix and VLan? As understand is that pvid 0 means it works or did I get it all wrong here. Is there some kind command/script I can run to set up the VLAN2 The connection is open, don’t have type login info it so to say just "click and pray"
Joined: 04 Aug 2018 Posts: 1447 Location: Appalachian mountains, USA
Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2019 15:13 Post subject:
Per Yngve Berg wrote:
The strange thing is, all ports show pvid: 0. There is not VLAN2 information for the WAN port.
The pvid: 0 thing is actually not strange for this Linksys router family. See the discussion in the first post of https://forum.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=317199. These Linksys routers do not use the default VLAN structure of the commonly discussed Netgear, etc. routers. _________________ 2x Netgear XR500 and 3x Linksys WRT1900ACSv2 on 53544: VLANs, VAPs, NAS, station mode, OpenVPN client (AirVPN), wireguard server (AirVPN port forward) and clients (AzireVPN, AirVPN, private), 3 DNSCrypt providers via VPN.
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2019 12:34 Post subject: wrt32X orange internet light
I also have the WRT32X. I noticed with the 40400 firmware I also got the orange internet light. I ended up using the small file (666 file) 40134 firmware which got me a blue light for the internet using the same setting I had for 40400 firmware.
I also noticed my wifi was unstable when using nas formatted as ext4 and both ath0 and ath1 enabled and ath3 disabled.
When I only enabled one ath it became stable. Currenty I only have ath0 enabled while still using the nas with:
wireless network mode=mixed
channel width= vht80
Thanks ed2019 I will try to give that old firmware a shout, did you only installed the image and the web part, just as you mentioned it's the 666 file version "cool it's the number of the beast"
I have tried to google pvid 0 and as the big internet I brows to a lot of pages about Citrix and VLan? As understand is that pvid 0 means it works or did I get it all wrong here. Is there some kind command/script I can run to set up the VLAN2 The connection is open, don’t have type login info it so to say just "click and pray" 