Things I learned about my RT-BE88U AiMesh routers

[Tech9]

Explore SMB options with native VLAN support and you'll be happier.

 

[vlanvlan]

Explore SMB options with native VLAN support and you'll be happier.

Don't you worry about my happiness. This is the route I chose to follow, and follow it I will.

 

[Ripshod]

Don't you worry about my happiness. This is the route I chose to follow, and follow it I will.

I'm really pleased I've never experienced any of the problems you seem to have.
Your router must have hardware faults, or your factory reset didn't complete.

 

[vlanvlan]

I'm really pleased I've never experienced any of the problems you seem to have.
Your router must have hardware faults, or your factory reset didn't complete.

Are you running it in router mode, or AP mode? Are you using a VLAN setup?

Both my units are displaying the exact same configuration issue behaviour, so we can rule out a hardware defect I recon.

 

[Ripshod]

Router mode. VLAN + VPN on an IoT guest network.

 

[Tech9]

This is the route I chose to follow, and follow it I will.

Enjoy the journey. Don't complain about your own choices.

 

[vlanvlan]

Router mode. VLAN + VPN on an IoT guest network.

I run mine in AP mode, perhaps that is a difference in where it messes up. I have no experience running the device in router mode.

 

[vlanvlan]

Enjoy the journey. Don't complain about your own choices.

I'll enjoy it, and I'll complain whenever I want. You can also just not read this thread, you know?

 

[Tech9]

Pointing your anger to people trying to help you won't solve your problem. Good luck!

 

[vlanvlan]

Pointing your anger to people trying to help you won't solve your problem. Good luck!

Not sure what your problem is. As stated before, I'll solve the issues myself, I am just sharing my experiences (and occasional rage) here.

 

[vlanvlan]

For the completeness of things, this is the end solution to get the correct wireless subinterfaces assigned to the correct bridge interfaces (when using the GUI to create VLANs and assign SSIDs to it), as well as using a different VLAN for the management of the AP:

Check NVRAM to see which wireless sub interface is assigned to your SSID: nvram show | grep -i wl | grep -i ssid

Add script to /jffs/scripts, name it 'services-start', make sure to chmod +x the file.

Adjust config to your situation.

#!/bin/bash
# remove untagged traffic from br0
brctl delif br0 eth0
brctl delif br0 eth9

# move management to VLAN 2 on br2
ifconfig br0 0.0.0.0
ifconfig br2 xx.xx.xx.xx netmask 255.255.255.0
route add default gw xx.xx.xx.xx

# remove all wireless sub interfaces assigned after configuring them via GUI
brctl delif br0 wl0.0
brctl delif br0 wl1.0
brctl delif br0 wl0.4
brctl delif br0 wl0.1
brctl delif br0 wl1.1
brctl delif br2 wl0.2
brctl delif br2 wl1.2
brctl delif br3 wl0.3
brctl delif br3 wl1.3
brctl delif br4 wl1.4
brctl delif br5 wl0.5
brctl delif br5 wl1.5
brctl delif br6 wl0.6
brctl delif br6 wl1.6


# assign wireless sub interfaces to the correct bridges
brctl addif br3 wl0.1
brctl addif br3 wl1.1
brctl addif br4 wl0.2
brctl addif br4 wl1.2
brctl addif br6 wl0.3
brctl addif br6 wl1.3

 

[Ripshod]

Be careful, /jffs/scripts/services-start may already exist as a few addons use it. The script above can be added to it though.

 

[Ripshod]

@vlanvlan how many vlans have you set up on your router between the last reset and turning it into an AP? I ask because mine (in router mode of course) is only running two bridges - br0 (for the main network) and br55 (for VLAN52). I can't understand why you have so many just by changing to AP mode. And yes, my nvram contains all those wl settings (with different values of course).

 

[vlanvlan]

@vlanvlan how many vlans have you set up on your router between the last reset and turning it into an AP? I ask because mine (in router mode of course) is only running two bridges - br0 (for the main network) and br55 (for VLAN52). I can't understand why you have so many just by changing to AP mode. And yes, my nvram contains all those wl settings (with different values of course).

I use 5 VLANs inside my house with an upstream firewall, VLAN ID's 2 through 6. Default the AP starts dishing out VLANs in the 50's range when you just select the different subnet option on creating an SSID. You are however able to manually create your own list of IDs, or reassign the one it has given you, if you have any need for it. I am suspecting ASUS has not tested for the situation where its users want to use the lower range of VLAN IDs.