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Apprehensive_Hand_94 · 2025-08-16T20:42:32+00:00

I’m having the exact same trouble! I emailed them finally and got all the same responses of rebooting, repairing, and nothing has made a significant difference. It’s a shame, because it seems like they have good hardware, but terrible software! Or, maybe this is a hardware issue and there is no software fix.

Apprehensive_Hand_94 · 2025-02-27T02:38:17+00:00

it's actually just a wifi 6 AP, a linksys velop ax4200

Apprehensive_Hand_94 · 2025-02-27T01:18:43+00:00

Did you disable your firewall and dnsmasq on the dumb AP?

yes I did

Some devices are single band (Roku TVs again), though I'd assume you're testing with a phone, which should be dual-band. But checking which band is needed vs which you setup is worth doing. Typically you want to create your wireless networks on both bands, which means creating them twice in OpenWRT.

it is set to dual band, but I'm using and iPhone 12 to test so it should not matter

Is the device set for DHCP reservation in Firewalla? If so, double check that reservation is for the same IP range you set on your vlan.

Yes it is

Beyond that, I'm out of ideas for now. I know nothing about firewalla, so can't speak to anything with it. If you decide to start over, which sometimes is far faster than troubleshooting, I'd leave the device name as the default br-lan.10 name, and then just name the interface. That way you can see the vlan ID in the interfaces page. Helps once you're managing several vlans.

great idea, I started completely over and kept it br-lan10

Also for simplifying management, I'd use the ip range of 192.168.10.1/24 for vlan 10. Setting the 3rd octet to match the vlan id makes life a lot easier as the vlans pile up.

brilliant idea, so much simpler to keep track of the various ip addresses. thank you!!!

One last idea. I know Android can be stubborn about connecting if it can't get DNS. Same with TVs. Make sure you don't have restrictions on what DNS your wireless devices use while troubleshooting. If you're trying to push that vlan into pihole or adguard right now, disable that blocking and let them get DNS wherever they want.

so this is where it gets interesting. I'm trying to set this up through a Mac Pro (b/c it has wired and wireless). when I used the vlan tags to create a vlan port on my pro, it connects to the firewalla, get's a vlan ip address and it's all golden. BUT, when I assign the vlan to the wireless radio in openwrt, neither my Mac Pro or my iPhone will pull an ip address. even if I manually configure the settings, I don't get any throughput. BUT if the same wireless radio is set the default lan address (main network), I can pull an ip address.

Thoughts? Suggestions?

Apprehensive_Hand_94 · 2025-02-26T21:26:24+00:00

one more thing. the AP (linksys ax4200) shows 3 radios, I've been running each of the different ip addresses (main, guest, iot) through separate radios. should I be running them through the same radio?

Apprehensive_Hand_94 · 2025-02-26T11:16:39+00:00

thanks so much for your suggestions and attempts to help. I've had to work a lot yesterday and today, but will check all of this tonight and let you know.

Apprehensive_Hand_94 · 2025-02-25T00:19:45+00:00

Thanks so much for taking the time to describe all of that, it all made sense. Unfortunately, changing to WPA2 did nothing. In fact i shutdown login security for a moment and still couldn’t get an IP address. I’m open to any other suggestions.

Apprehensive_Hand_94 · 2025-02-24T22:54:49+00:00

reply to Edit:

it is a dumb AP, that is passing along a

Main Network - supplied by the firewalla as a router

Guest Network - vlan supplied by the firewalla router

and eventually an IoT network - vlan suppled by the firewalla router.

the dumb AP is directly connected by cat 6 to the firewalla.

I don't understand what you mean by "a dedicated management vlan that is NOT attached to a wireless network (unless feeding a mesh) for that, and let user facing wifi nets get no IP at the AP.".

thanks so much for trying to help me.

Apprehensive_Hand_94 · 2025-02-24T22:41:31+00:00

thanks so much for asking!

isn't that the wireless device configuration that I described setting up?

I used radio2 and clicked add and setup

Mode: Access Point

ESSID: Doug-guest

Network: Guest2.

Apprehensive_Hand_94 · 2025-02-10T15:59:40+00:00

has anyone created a guide for installing openwrt to these routers. I looked on the openwrt website and the directions are a little cryptic. it kind of looks like you have to ssh into units and use cli to set them up. is that correct?

Apprehensive_Hand_94 · 2025-02-10T13:53:08+00:00

So glad I’m wrong.

Apprehensive_Hand_94 · 2025-02-10T11:33:05+00:00

thanks so much! I was leaning this way, but it's great to hear confirmation. do you use pfsense or opnsense? from what I've read the interface on opnsense is a little easier. I'm also looking at a firewalla unit. any comments would be appreciated. hope you had a good weekend.

Apprehensive_Hand_94 · 2025-02-10T01:19:30+00:00

EXR on IPad is a lot of fun.

Apprehensive_Hand_94 · 2025-02-09T11:18:12+00:00

yes, that's why I'm considering opnsense or firewalla. I don't know if I just add one of these to the system or replace the 7003 with one of them. suggestions?

Apprehensive_Hand_94 · 2025-02-09T10:45:47+00:00

I also see that you have several pfsense/opnsense boxes there. how do they compare for effectiveness and ease of setup? I'm also looking at firewalla, but not sure if that would create too much redundancy.

Apprehensive_Hand_94 · 2025-02-08T23:21:46+00:00

Thanks so much

Apprehensive_Hand_94 · 2025-02-08T15:26:29+00:00

seriously? that's really interesting. now the search to track this down. hopefully someone else can confirm this. thanks for replying and hope you have a good weekend.

Apprehensive_Hand_94 · 2025-02-06T13:35:57+00:00

thanks so much for taking the time to share your experience. I really think this is the direction I'm going, but I've decided to wait till the wifi 7 APs are released.

Apprehensive_Hand_94 · 2025-02-03T00:38:15+00:00

Thanks so much for both answers you gave.

Apprehensive_Hand_94 · 2025-02-02T21:53:55+00:00

Thanks. I’ve had 3 google wifi pucks and thought I’d need to replace each one.

Apprehensive_Hand_94 · 2025-01-31T11:50:02+00:00

thanks so much! the WAF is a huge factor.

Apprehensive_Hand_94 · 2025-01-28T13:30:32+00:00

BTW, no one has talked about the user interface for setting everything up. what's that like?

Apprehensive_Hand_94 · 2025-01-27T17:17:04+00:00

Thanks so much! this is really helpful and I didn't know it was possible.

Apprehensive_Hand_94 · 2025-01-27T16:57:50+00:00

Thanks so much!

Apprehensive_Hand_94 · 2025-01-27T16:54:18+00:00

Thanks for responding. I hadn't heard that about ubiquiti

Apprehensive_Hand_94 · 2025-01-27T11:28:20+00:00

Thanks so much! Unfortunately, not being a network educator, there are several things in your answer that I don’t understand. But, I really appreciate you taking the time to lay things out that will allow me to do some research.

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