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Wireless Client Bridge

April 8, 2016, 1:52 am
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Has anyone tried the Repeater Bridge on the Netgear R8000?

The DD-WRT instructions for the R8000 explicitly indicate NOT to use Wireless Client Bridge. I assume this is because with newer routers with MIMO radios do not support Client Bridge and instead allow the configuration of Repeater Bridge mode (which creates a wifi bridge in the same subnet and allows both wifi *and* wired connections both sides of the bridge).

I am curious to know if anyone has successfully configured the R8000 in Repeater Bridge mode.

 

  1. I am seeking a solution to take the R8000 on the road with me to use in hotel rooms and connect it to their wifi as a Bridge, so I can then connect in my room to my router with multiple devices.
  2. I was hoping to isolate my router and enable DHCP for devices on my router's network to get an IP in their own segment. Is this possible? What mode should the router operate?
  3. Can my router use Private Internet Access VPN provider in the OpenVPN service while operating in a Repeater Bridge capacity?

 

 

Look forward to your insight.

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DD-WRT WAN configuration when using OpenVPN

April 8, 2016, 1:57 am
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I cannot find conclusive evidence if it is possible (or lack thereof) to configure the WAN to the modem (in Bridge passthrough mode) when using OpenVPN.

Has anyone successfully configured WAN function when using OpenVPN on DD-WRT? How did you do it?

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R8000 intrested in king firmware

December 9, 2015, 2:40 am
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please can you tell me , i just bought new R8000 and its works abs fine with excellent wifi, but today i just seen this web site and join. my question is, if i flash king firware and for some reason i did not like or its not works as official  firmware , can i re installl to factory setting as its comes with?

please reply

 

thanks

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dd-wrt WAN DHCP and R8000 vs wndr4500

December 10, 2015, 9:48 am
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========Long post: Sorry but there is a lot of background. Below was posted in a DSLreports forum but the issue was originally posted here under the WNDR4500v1 forum when I was troubleshooting that device.========

 

I have had Charter cable since about 2008 and after a bad period between 2008-2009 is had been rock solid. Almost like a real utility, always on. Fast forward to 6 weeks ago and it has become nearly 100% unreliable. for the past 4-5 years I have been using a Motorola SB6120 modem and Netgear wnd4500v1 router running dd-wrt. This setup just worked, no issues at all. Out of no where started having problems. After extensive troubleshooting I began to notice consistent WAN DHCP issues. Where I used to get a dynamic IP assignment that would last for weeks I was now getting leases that were as short as 1 hour with nothing greater that 6 hours for weeks.

The problem initially started with incomplete DHCP where I would get WAN ip, subnet and gateway but no DNS. To counter I configured the router with a static openDNS DNS assignment. Eventually I stopped getting DHCP addresses at all from the modem almost as if the WAN port on the router had died. I found that if I cycled the WAN port from active to disabled back to active DHCP I would get a complete DHCP assignment but again with a short 1 hour lease. When the lease was up the connection would drop. No new lease. Sometimes the connection would be up for days without issue then bam, can't get an address.

Suspecting old gear was the problem I replaced the power brick on the router which tested good with no load. No impact on the problem. Checked the power brick on the modem and found it was providing 14.4vdc when it should have been 12vdc. Replaced. Charter tech stated signals from the Motorola modem improved with the new power brick but were still marginal. I suspected the 14.4vdc damaged the modem. Yesterday I replaced the Motorola modem AND the router. I had an old DOCSIS 3.0 Ubee modem from Charter that I never used since I had the Motorola. I also purchased and configured a new Netgear R8000 with the latest dd-wrt firmware.

This configuration it worse than the old setup. After a few hours the router just stops responding. At lest with the old wndr4500 the LAN side of the router would continue to work perfectly even when the WAN was down. I could dial into the 4500 to look at the WAN config and see it was not getting an assignment. With the R8000 LAN and WAN just stop responding. Charter support claims the modem looks good but can't explain the change in WAN DCHP assignments and why the modem will not acknowledge DHCP request. I have a serial connection configured on the wndr4500v1 and can watch the unanswered discovery request sent to the modem.

The only thing in common at this point is dd-wrt as the modems have been changed and routers swapped. I currently have the old 4500 router in place as it is more reliable than the new R8000 which freezes after a few hours. As a last test I will re-flash the old 4500 with the oldest dd-wrt I can find to see if something changed with the new builds but I can't do that with the R8000 as everything is new with that router. I still think Charter has changed something in their network config that is breaking dd-wrt routers. Connecting laptop directly to modem via a switch always works. I have not tried re-flashing the R8000 router back to Netgear firmware an may test that this weekend. Does this sound familiar to anyone?

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Question about Firmwares for R8000

April 12, 2016, 7:45 pm
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I bought a R8000 last night and it seems like an amazing unit. I was looking at the factory firmware and there isn't an easy way to setup time scheduling for mac addresses. I have kids and like to prevent internet access based on the day of the week/time/device for kid of X age. I had an Asus RT-AC87U and it had this scheduling functionality but after trying to install DDWRT it never worked the same even though its listed as an open source router and now keeps crashing hence the replacement. Does DDWRT firmware allow for time scheduling based on mac address, not IP address for those smart kids out there? I was expecting to see a lot more activity in the forums with thoughts experiences with using DDWRT on this router. Which is the best one firmware version? I work from home so my router working the way I need it to is very important.

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Best settings to use

April 19, 2016, 8:33 am
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Hi all

I am new to DD-WRT and am trying to setup r8000.

I have downloaded and flashed latest kong build released on 4 April 2016 using following steps

restore factory setting ->flash with kong build ->reset using hardware reset button ->configure router

Set up three SSIDs , all are named differently 

2.4 band settings are as follows

Wireless Mode
Wireless Network Mode
Wireless Network Name (SSID)

Wireless Channel
Channel Width
Wireless SSID Broadcast

Enable  Disable

Optimize Multicast Traffic

Enable  Disable 

TurboQAM (QAM256) support

Enable  Disable 

Explicit Beamforming

Enable  Disable 

Implicit Beamforming

Enable  Disable 

Airtime Fairness

Enable  Disable 

Network Configuration

Unbridged  Bridged

1st 5Ghz band uses N-only ,settings below

Wireless Mode
Wireless Network Mode
Wireless Network Name (SSID)

Wireless Channel
Channel Width
Extension Channel
Wireless SSID Broadcast

Enable  Disable

Optimize Multicast Traffic

Enable  Disable 

Explicit Beamforming

Enable  Disable 

Implicit Beamforming

Enable  Disable 

Airtime Fairness

Enable  Disable 

Network Configuration

Unbridged  Bridged

2nd 5GHZ band settings as below

Wireless Mode
Wireless Network Mode
Wireless Network Name (SSID)

Wireless Channel
Channel Width
Wireless SSID Broadcast

Enable  Disable

Optimize Multicast Traffic

Enable  Disable 

Explicit Beamforming

Enable  Disable 

Implicit Beamforming

Enable  Disable 

Airtime Fairness

Enable  Disable 

Network Configuration

Unbridged  Bridged

 

Can someone please look at the settings and advise if I am using optimum settings and what band should be used.

Also I am trying to setup a Guest network so that the guest devices will not be able to access the network drives or router settings.

Configured Virtual inteface as below on 2.4Ghz band

Wireless Network Name (SSID)

Wireless SSID Broadcast

Enable  Disable

AP Isolation

Enable  Disable 

Optimize Multicast Traffic

Enable  Disable 

Network Configuration

Unbridged  Bridged

Multicast forwarding

Enable  Disable 

Masquerade / NAT

Enable  Disable 

Net Isolation

Enable  Disable 

Forced DNS Redirection

Enable  Disable

IP Address

...

Subnet Mask

...

 

How ever no devices are able to connect to this virtual interface , all devices stuck at "Acquiring IP".

The above settings are configured as suggested  in various posts.

Please help with the settings of virtual interface for guest network.

Thanks

 

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DD-WRT Requests

April 27, 2016, 3:38 pm
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Help! How do I configure WAN with my static IP from ISP

May 6, 2016, 2:26 am
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Using a modem in Bridge Mode how do I configure the WAN to use my ISP supplied static IP?

Normally the modem would have the static IP entered in its configuration but to use with DD-WRT the modem needs to be in Bridge Mode and the DD-WRT WAN would be configured in PPPoE with the supplied ISP username and password.

Your ideas would be ideal!

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How could I load latest dd-wrt firmware?

May 13, 2016, 11:46 pm
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I have used

USB-TTL cable

and I got into the screen it says busybox v1.7.2

I was able to use ls, vi, cd.....commands but when I tried to use tftp and it said that I have to use tftp in octet mode.  I happened because I tried to get back to Netgear firmware but it did not get me back to there.  Can you some one give me some commands for me to get upload the latest dd-wrt firmware or netgear firmware.  I have the firmware ready but I don't know how to open the connection to transfer the firmware back.  I will let you see the screen later, probably I would my phone to try.

 

Thanks.

P.S if tftp octet mode would help I will do it.

 

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Google Play not playing (communicating) with DD-WRT and OpenVPN

May 14, 2016, 1:13 am
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For the past 8 months I have been using Private Internet Access (PIA) VPN  installed on a Netgear R8000 router using DD-WRT OpenVPN and today when I tried to connect to Google Play with my Samsung Galaxy Note 4 phone to check and update the installed apps I was unable to make a connection.
 
I tested the wifi further by loading websites using Chrome and duckduckgo app, and music streaming from a radio station was also possible but Google Play would not connect.
 
I believe the problem is with PIA VPN when operating and connecting via the router because if I disable the VPN a connection is made. ALSO tested by turning OFF wifi and using cellular MobileData with PIA VPN turned ON and again a connection was possible.
 
Have you experienced this issue when using DD-WRT on the router and how did you resolve the odd situation?
 
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Netgear R8000 Repeater Bridge and Client Bridge - not working

May 20, 2016, 4:17 pm
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I have revived my router through a lot of processes.  Now my router is up to the latest firmware but every time I tried to use my router is a wireless repeater bridge or client bridge it is bricked.  I have to use nvram erase to get it back.  Also I have tried to use it as a regular router but it does not work.  The local connections and the pings are good but the internet does not work.  I have tried both static and dynamic ip WAN addresses but still not working.  Can someone offer me a real insight to this?  Thanks. 

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r8000

May 21, 2016, 8:51 am
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After installing the tomato firmware on my R8000 I was having lots of issues with wireless so I decided to go back to stock firmware. Well long story short for some reason now my R8000 is showing a R7000 firmare and I am not able to do anything about it. can anybody help?

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VAP fails to connect.

May 24, 2016, 8:50 am
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Netgear R8000

DD-WRT Firmware: DD-WRT v3.0-r29440M kongac (04/24/16)

 

Hi everyone,

Trying to set up a VAP and while I can see the SSID, I still can't connect to it.  Followed the instructions here http://www.ciscopress.com/articles/article.asp?p=1730493 and here  https://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Guest_WiFi_%2B_abuse_control_for_b...

My settings are in the screenshots below.  

Please disregard the DNS targets, I was just changing IPs around

Any help would be appreciated!

 

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Vlan for IPTV and Internet

May 25, 2016, 6:56 am
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Hi All,

I just got my R8000 unit about 1 weeks. I just flashed to tomato.

I would need to have 2 vlan ID, 1 is for Internet VID 500 and IPTV VID 600. I managed to get the VID 500 work, but VID 600 failed.

How should I configure in Tomato?

Thanks

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Where can I find the toolchain?

June 9, 2016, 7:38 am
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Hello,

I am loosing my mind trying to find the toolchain:

hndtools-arm-linux-2.6.36-uclibc-4.5.3.tar.bz2

 

I see references to it, but have had no luck finding it anywhere.

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VNC Repeater HOWTO?

June 10, 2016, 12:26 pm
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Hello,

I see the amazing develpopment here have added VNC Repeater service to ddwrt.

I cannot find a guide on how to configure. If someone could point me in teh right direction I am sure I can figure it out.

I would gladly write a HOWTO, once I have figured it out.

There is a HOWTO for OpenRouter, but not one specifically for DDWRT.

Thanks in advance.

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DD-WRT by Tathagata for NETGEAR R8000 Nighthawk (Rev 29627) Issue

June 12, 2016, 10:51 am
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Hi

 

I just upgraded to this firmware from Decembers Release.

 

I have noticed i am only allowed 1 wifi at 5ghz as when clicking on add it only allows WAP.

 

Is anyone else getting this the december release did not have this issue.

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R8000 5GHZ Radio Combine

June 13, 2016, 11:52 pm
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R8000 in infinite loop, need help restoring

June 15, 2016, 9:51 am
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Hello, 

I installed the latest version of dd-wrt on the netgear R8000. The install was a success. I reached the dd-wrt gui via https. Unfortunately, I changed my wifi settings on the R8000 to Client Bridge mode then saved and rebooted. After that the R8000 went into an infinite loops and keeps rebooting itself. The R8000 is plugged into my home router (fios) and was set as an AP by default. I did not want the AP setting and wanted the R8000 to stand as its own network, say 10.0.0.1 instead of 192.168.1.1 being that my fios router is 192.168.1.10. 

Can someone give me some advice on how to get back into the dd-wrt gui? I was looking forward to setting it up as a VPN Router, using a paid vpn service. I tried holding in the reset button on the R8000 but that did not change anything and the R8000 continues to reboot itself. 

Thanks in advance! 

PS: I installed DD-WRT by Tathagata for NETGEAR R8000 Nighthawk (Rev 29627) 2016-06-04 14:16 from http://www.myopenrouter.com/download/dd-wrt-tathagata-netgear-r8000-nighthawk-rev-29627

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R8000 - Can't get VAP WLAN1.1 added to bridge

June 15, 2016, 1:06 pm
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I try to add my SSID "Guest_2.4" which is defined as VAP on WLAN1.1 to bridge1 which is my guest lan subnet (192.168.5.0/24 via VLAN 5). It works fine for SSID "Guest" which is VAP on WLAN2.1.

For unclear reasons, WLAN2.1 and VLAN5 are attached to bridge1, but WLAN1.1 isn't, altought it is in the "assign to bridge" list. See below for actual configuration.

Anybody an idea why WLAN1.1 is not added to bridge1? 

 

VLAN Tagging

 

Tagging 
VLAN 0 Interface

  Tag Number   Prio 

 

 

 

Bridging

 

Create Bridge 
NameMSTPIGMP SnoopingPrioMTURoot MAC 
IP Address

...

Subnet Mask

...

 

Assign to Bridge 
Assignment 0  

  BridgeInterface 

  Prio  

Assignment 1  

  BridgeInterface 

  Prio  

Assignment 2  

  BridgeInterface 

  Prio  

 

Current Bridging Table 
Bridge NameSTP enabledInterface
br0yesvlan1 vlan2 eth1 eth2 eth3
br1yeswl2.1 vlan5
 

 

 
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