Hi all,
After spending several days troubleshooting a 6in4 tunnel setup (which turned out to be blocked by my ISP filtering protocol 41), I also realized I had misconfigured a UCI tunnel interface name, which added to the mess.
To avoid any lingering issues or misconfigurations (especially in NVRAM), I’m looking for advice on the best way to clean up the router while preserving manually installed packages.
What would you recommend?
Option A: Backup current configuration and installed package list, then reset the router via the GUI
Option B: Backup everything and do a clean reflash.
This happened on the stock firmware, but I’d appreciate input for both stock and -op24 branch, since I’ll make one final attempt to bring up the 6in4 tunnel on a device running -op24 — mostly to confirm everything I’ve learned.
Thanks in advance for any tips or recommendations!
There is no way that you have misconfigurations inside the base system. As long as you are trying to restore your current config, all mistakes will come back. There is no "real" NVRAM, what you see via SSH is what the system sees as well - no hidden config store.
So the best way is by resetting the whole device by reflashing the firmware without keeping settings and without restoring packages / backups.
You could also copy over contents from /rom/etc/config or merge certain stuff to make a 'clean' version, this is usefull when you already have found the culprit but just want to inspect or replace real default values from factory.
For wifi this is non existent, but you can use wifi config to restore it.
@xize11 , @admon thank you both. I just want to start clean. So I will just do a configuration dump via the GUI and list installed packages, reset to new version without saving settings. once in the new firmware, reinstall and reapply what's needed. dyndns config in my case