howto:general:network:switch_config

Switch configuration

This page will discuss the GUI Configuration of the Routers Switch(Ethernet Ports).

Overview

Level of difficulty

 Medium

Instructions


GUI

DD-WRT NXT provides high-level control over the underlying configuration for the available switch ports

The default configuration interface looks as following:

Per default, all ethernet ports are assigned to LAN, every attached device is part of the LAN-Network per default.


Assign Switch port to WAN

A need for configuring the switch ports may be, that you want to move a LAN Port, to the WAN-Network. One might have a setup similar to:

Ethernet-PC1—-(PORT 1)DD-WRT NXT(WAN)—-MODEM

Where PC1, should be in the same Network, as the WAN side of your DD-WRT NXT router and the Modem.

The GUI configuration would look as follows:

With this configuration, the PC1 will now receive an IP from the Modem or the DHCP Server in the WAN-Network, if the setup provides this


Troubleshooting

Not available, yet

howto/general/network/switch_config.txt · Last modified: 2018/05/24 09:05 (external edit)