How to Change A LAN port to Guest LAN

Technical Support for Routers
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Sometimes people want to have one LAN port of GL-router change into the Guest LAN, then they can provide their guests a LAN connection without using the main LAN.

Our models GL-AX1800, GL-AXT1800, and GL-A1300 can provide one of the LAN ports to become a Guest LAN.

First, login your router and go to Luci. Then click the Network tab Interface and you will see the Guest

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Click Edit and then you can see the manual inside. Change the Device from unspecified to eth2

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Then go back to Interface and click LAN.

Change the Device from br-lan to eth1.

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Finally, you can go back to the router web admin panel and turn on the guest wifi. You will have one LAN port changed to Guest LAN now.

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Hi,
Do any of the other routers support this, for example GL-MT6000 or GL-B3000 or is it just the 3 mentioned above?

Thanks!

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I would say all router support it but you need to do the change using luci or SSH.

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Ok great, that sounds positive, I’ll check that out…thanks for your reply

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I am using A1300.
I have tried to do this but eth1 is allocated to tethering (i am using a usb lte dongle as wan 2, Starlink as wan1).
I am trying to route a lan port via wireguard ( wan1) and the other lan via wan1, with failover via wan 2
What do I select instead

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If eth1 is tethering, then maybe eth0 is the switch and you should configure vlan there.

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Just tried this tutorial on a AX1800 running 4.5.16 firmware and the Wi-Fi stopped working.
I couldn’t connect on any of the SSIDs (normal and guest). I had to revert the changes

daemon.warn dnsmasq-dhcp[4685]: DHCP packet received on wlan1 which has no address

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I have run out of eh? settings;
eth0 is now allocated to guest
eth1 is allocated to wan
eh2 is allocated to tether
only other ethernet adapter shows as “wgclient”
I do not understand the vlan reference in your previous reply.