How do I know what port is associated with the back of the router. I associated a vlan with port 2, which I expected to be the port with the green arrow (see attachment), which lights up the number '2' up front. Unfortunately, the port is actually the one indicated with the red arrow, which lights up the number 3 on the front!
Why does the new vlan I defined does not get started on boot time, I need to add an ifconfig statement to the rc_startup variable. I also went to the gui and configured it there (in the networking tab, under 'Network Configuration vlan3'), but that doesn't seem to make a difference.
Where do I fond out what the differences in 'Operating Mode' is (advanced routing tab)?
As explained on that wiki page the port numbering for the nvram variables can be reverse of what they are labelled on the case. You just have to test and figure it out yourself. The easiest way to figure it out is to just remove the highest or lowest number from the LAN VLAN and then see what port stops responding. The rest of the LAN ports will still be sequentially numbered.
Could you be specific about what ALL of your nvram variables are currently set to, what settings you tried for vlan3 on the networking page, and what ifconfig commands you're using? I've tested with a wrt320n which has the same BCM53115 switch as your WNR3500L without any trouble getting the vlan to start on boot.
The "gateway" operating mode does NAT on the WAN port, "router" disables NAT, and the other modes are named for the routing protocol they enable. _________________ Read the forum announcements thoroughly! Be cautious if you're inexperienced.
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Did not want to post the full nvram list, but I think these are the relevant ones (feel free to chastise!). Now that I sort of know what I'm doing I may just define a different subnet on each port and label the back.
So, this works, but I need the rc_startup. I also noticed that by default, iptables is configured to allow access from that secondary subnet to everything. That threw me for a bit. I.e. I have to do:
The port numbering seems identical to the wrt320n's. From left to right it's 0 4 3 2 1.
So the vlan3 interface comes up properly (no ifconfig vlan3 up that I expected) but for some reason it doesn't get the IP/netmask assigned. Are you sure you didn't just hit Save and never Apply or rebooted it? Try removing the startup script and then rebooting. I have an unbridged VLAN on all my test models that gets assigned an IP properly on every model. _________________ Read the forum announcements thoroughly! Be cautious if you're inexperienced.
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Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 16:12 Post subject: I stand corrected!
I stand corrected!
Removed the rc_startup, and it does get configured. Given how much I played around with it, I must indeed have not saved something when I thought I did.
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