[free99]

Hello everyone, first post. I have an Asus RT-AC68U which has been quite reliable. I recently decided to add a virtual AP for the first time, and it seems to have kicked out any kind of connectivity, from Ethernet to Wifi in general.

I connected a TTY to USB adapter to the serial header on the PCB and noticed that the terminal continuously repeats the following:

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For a little more info, here are the settings from nvram for the vap (wl1.1):

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build number?

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[bkaskar]

Hi @free99,

I am using : DD-WRT v3.0-r39960M kongac (06/08/19). It works pretty well (apart from VAP startup - wlconf restart issue) on RT AC68U.

I have tried the latest BS build on my RT AC5300 over the weeked. As Gateway it worked very well. No issues at all for over 24 hrs! It's only when I was setting up VAPs bridged with VLANs I ran into issues. It could totally be unrelated but in general the VLAN.asp(switch config) and Network.asp pages make the router unresponsive for me in this build.

Regards.

[free99]

Hello kernel-panic69 and bkaskar, thanks for taking the time to look.

When I initially faced thsi problem, I wasn't able to visit the webUI even after manually setting my IP to the expected address range. DHCP wouldn't work on any interface. It could be the wland daemon, or dnsmasq.

This issue seems to be a bit of a heisenbug, when I reset my router to defaults and rebuilt the settings (without using a config backup file) it once again didn't work. My route table was empty, and the message about no support for eth2 kept going on and on.

I tried once again, except I set the VAP to unbridged and then everything seemed ok-ish. After adding the VAP to a nwe bridge and setting DHCP for it, all interfaces work except the VAP. I rebooted the router and let it sit for about 3-4 minutes, and once again I had no connectivity on any LAN interface. WAN was OK though.

Could it be a race of some kind? Something is trying to use one of the bridges but it hasn't been created just yet?

I had to dig up kong's tutorial on guest networks on web.archive.org, he or she mentions that the guest AP should not be bridged.

My goal is to segment my network, creating a VLAN for less trustworthy devices, and a VLAN for more trustworthy devices. Two bridges (for different ethernet ports to be tied to the respective VLANs), two DHCP servers, and two wireless networks on one radio.

I appreciate your help in advance! bkaskar, I'll jump back to 39960M if I cannot contribute some useful info to the devs somehow with this build.

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[lpy]

Everything works good for me on r40900 but not newer builds. Have you tried that one?

Also the startup script is still required for these routers...mine is

sleep 30; stopservice nas; stopservice wlconf; wlconf eth1 up; wlconf eth2 up; startservice nas

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