Hotel Ethernet Zapped my AXT-1800 WAN Port- Repair Options?

Routers
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Here ya go:

[   30.400532] br-lan: port 3(wlan1) entered forwarding state
[   35.924429] br-lan: port 2(wlan0) entered forwarding state
[   38.404412] br-lan: port 3(wlan1) entered forwarding state
[  191.994524] nss-dp 3a001200.dp2 eth1: PHY Link up speed: 1000
[  191.994669] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth1: link becomes ready
[  195.806248] [add_dev_config 288]add node success. iface:wan, dev:eth1, ifindex:3
[  333.997114] nss-dp 3a001200.dp2 eth1: PHY Link is down
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Did you exchange wan and lan ports?

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Not sure what you mean (but this thread started over a year ago, so maybe I should recap?)

My eth0 port got burned out when Iā€™d plugged what I thought was a working Ethernet cable into it. Iā€™d since moved along to my SpitxAX, but I need something a little lighter (and less ā€œantennaā€-y :slight_smile: ) for an upcoming quick trip so decided to play with LuCi to turn one of the AXT-1800 LAN ports (eth1/eth2) into a WAN port.

So I removed all traces of eth0 from the networking config, then turned eth1 into the ā€œnewā€ WAN port (as it was closest to the original WAN port) and now eth2 is the only (native) Ethernet port on the LAN bridge.

Everything now seems to work, except I donā€™t get the whole ā€œEthernet is up and runningā€ dialog, just the one shown in the screenshot above, and Iā€™d wondered if there was a way to manually have whateverā€™s expecting a connection on eth0 to now start watching eth1 instead?

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Itā€™s hard-coded inside the Web GUI. No way of changing it, highly obfuscated JavaScript code mostly.

But since you are familiar with changing network config via SSH, this should not be a big deal for you, I guess.

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Ah, gotcha. Figured as much, and not a deal-breaker; itā€™s literally been sitting in a closet for a year, so now itā€™s at least usable again without an external USB Ethernet dongle.

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yes it is hardcored.