[bcarlson]

Hey all, when setting up DDWRT on my Netgear r7800, I'm 90% sure I changed something to stop the WAN interface from starting, but that was 8 months ago and I failed to make note of what I did. Reason was to allow configuration while not actually routing through it. Went to swap with old firewall and fail, no WAN. On reboot, eth0 just doesn't come up. What basic 'nvram set' or 'vi /etc/blah' did I forget?

Issue: On reboot, despite being in Gateway with static WAN IP configured, WAN interface won't start. 'ip addr show', no address assigned to eth0 and . Another oddness, time settings are in place (zone, IP addr) but the time does not set, firewall is back in 1969 and cron is not running ntpclient every 3600 seconds like it should.

I know I have some simple change, but cannot remember or re-find what the change was.

Firmware: DD-WRT v3.0-r53130 std (06/29/23)

[Per Yngve Berg]

Go to Setup->Switch Config tab.

Maybe you moved the WAN port away from vlan2.

[bcarlson]

No, eth0 was set as it should.

Gave up, upgraded to 2024 something and lo', no change and it worked.



Probably resetting to defaults and re-configuring everything would have worked as well.