GL iNet MT6000

Routers
1

Hey,

First experience with GL-iNet, first time posting.

I flashed mine upto OpenWRT 24.10.1 - and now I can't get the LAN to function. (Not sure if these events coincided)

I get no hot plug events, and nothing sees to respond on the LAN. Plugging it into a switch yields lights, but that is about it;

/etc/config/network
config device
option name 'br-lan'
option type 'bridge'
list ports 'lan1'
list ports 'lan2'
list ports 'lan3'
list ports 'lan4'
list ports 'lan5'

config interface 'lan'
option device 'br-lan'
option proto 'static'
option ipaddr '192.168.1.1'
option netmask '255.255.255.0'

ip a

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1504 qdisc mq state UP qlen 1000
link/ether 94:83:c4:aa:b0:98 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet6 fe80::9683:c4ff:feaa:b098/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP qlen 1000
link/ether 94:83:c4:aa:b0:96 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 10.1.2.254/24 brd 10.1.2.255 scope global eth1
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 fe80::9683:c4ff:feaa:b096/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
4: lan2@eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN qlen 1000
link/ether 94:83:c4:aa:b0:98 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
5: lan3@eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN qlen 1000
link/ether 94:83:c4:aa:b0:98 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
6: lan4@eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN qlen 1000
link/ether 94:83:c4:aa:b0:98 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
7: lan5@eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN qlen 1000
link/ether 94:83:c4:aa:b0:98 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
8: lan1@eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN qlen 1000
link/ether 94:83:c4:aa:b0:98 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

There is a cable plugged into LAN2.

Am I doing something silly? Or has my LAN switch disappeared?

Thanks

Martin

2

No LAN works? So how do you ssh to the router?

4

I have the WAN port configured statically, so if I ssh over the cable if I use that, otherwise I access it over the wireless. I only got this working with OpenWRT's recovery mode, which was flaky at best. The WAN/LAN port was the one that came up on 192.168.1.1

5

So seems there is a bug in OpenWrt firmware.

6

This might be a clue

7

I installed it 2 weeks ago and it's working fine.
It's important to don't select "keep settings"

8

Definitely followed the instruction to discard settings.
I think I'll try backing it up now, then

  1. Resetting to defaults. (on 24.10.1)
  2. Reflashing to factory. (dunno what this looks like, but I'll read a bit more and see if I can)
    I'll let you know how I go.
9

Okay, a reset to defaults restored functionality. Then I re-ladeled the configuration back on; Wireless, bridges, firewall, static IPs, kill off DHCP, SSHKeys for automated backups, and turn this into an AP with some unprivileged guest networks. Worked perfectly. I'm stumped. This is how I set it up in the first place.

Must be my fault - but I don't know how.

Sorry to be a nuisance.

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10

No problem. That is generally happens if you want to DIY something. Strange things happens and nobody knows the real issue.