TP-Link

Open-wrt Config TP-Link WR703N

2016-07-12. Category & Tags: Openwrt, TL-WR703N, TP-Link, 703N

Basic Configs in UI #

  1. First time connect, as suggested, give a root passwd and enable SSH server. (Though enabled, you may need to manually “start” dropbear SSH server in the “startup” menu tab.)
  2. Enable wireless and make it part of LAN.
  3. Enable security and set a passwd.
  4. The default device mode is bridge. To use as a router, we need to disable bridge.
  5. Then the eth0 will be gone, so we need to add this interface again, naming “wan”, using protocol “DHCP client”.

All above steps are done in “luci” UI. The following configs can be done in the busybox terminal as shown below, or by doing vim /etc/config/network directly.

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