Switch To Disable WAN Port In Access Point Operation Mode

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Assuming "System Setup - Operation Mode" is Access Point
2. WAN port is bridged to LAN
3. Sometime there is the need to just switch WAN off

I am excluding the WAN port via a check for nvram "wan_disable" in rc/rc.c, 
using "1 2 3 4 8*" for vlan1ports instead of "0 1 2 3 4 8*", but this way WAN 
port is just not in the LAN bridge, while it should be better off via the web 
interface.

Thanks in advance

- alfonso

Original issue reported on code.google.com by sunb...@email.it on 9 Sep 2012 at 9:26

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WAN port is bridged to LAN, so it functions just as an additional LAN port. Why 
do you ever need to disable it?

Original comment by ad...@vampik.ru on 10 Sep 2012 at 7:18

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long explanation:

rt-n16 with oleg firmware is my "stable" router, but i sometime test other 
routers, e.g. a wndr3800 with openwrt or a x86 box with zentyal or pfsense and 
so on; they all have a wan port connected to a dgn3500 that acts as a dsl 
modem; when i switch the main router i simply set the oleg rt-n16 as an access 
point loading a config file; I noticed that if the wan port of the rt-n16 is in 
the lan bridge (that means the lan of the rtn-16 is so connected to the 
dgn3500, while an other box is acting as the main router and so it is handling 
the pppoe connection through the dgn3500, "strange things" happens (e.g a slow 
down of the download rate or dsl not working at all or dgn3500 web interface 
and telnetd not accessable)

so, i was in the need to compile an oleg firmware that disables the wan port 
bridge when in access point mode; I thought it was a good idea to switch the 
wan port in the web interface, f.e. tomato can do that

thanks again in advance

-- alfonso

Original comment by sunb...@email.it on 10 Sep 2012 at 11:19

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Original comment by lly.dev on 18 Sep 2012 at 10:37

• Added labels: Type-Enhancement, Priority-Low, Component-WebUI
• Removed labels: Type-Defect, Priority-Medium