Hello,
I’m trying to set up my mox power wifi 6. My goal is to use it as just a simple wifi router, WAN ethernet ⇒ mox ⇒ wifi clients.
I connected to it over ethernet and set up wifi, then I connected the ethernet port to my current router and connected to the mox over wifi, but I had connectivity issues. I disconnected it and connected the ethernet port to my laptop again.
Now it won’t connect to my laptop at all, whether over wifi or ethernet.
ok, an update, I managed to do the factory reset and start over.
I’m connected to the mox over wifi, nothing is plugged in to the ethernet port, but it won’t allow me to set the ethernet as WAN in the interfaces tab. It’s currently set as LAN. The Save button is greyed out.
Do I need to go into LuCI to make this work?
The problem is that you only have one ethernet port. The second you would press save (for attaching eht1 from lan to wan) the MOX wouldn’t be accessible anymore. I believe that is the reason you cannot save via Foris.
Doing it via luci wouldn’t help either, because luci checks that the connection laptop-MOX is still working and would revert the changes if it is not.
So you need to either trick luci, do the changes via SSH or go another way: setup a WiFi SSID on lan network, connect to the MOX wirelessly and then do the changes. That way you won’t lock yourself out.
Thanks for the quick response.
Yes right now I’m trying your last option, since this is going to be a wifi router after all, but I’m having trouble getting the wifi set up as LAN and the ethernet as WAN. I’m using LuCI now. The wifi network shows up but I can’t connect to it.
There is also option to save changes without verifying. After you are sure about config. So you do all the necessary changes with Save not Save&Apply and then when all config is prepared you do Save & Without checking.
Did you open the router and check that the antenna cables are connected?
No but I could connect to the wifi fine before. It’s just that I can’t connect to 192.168.1.1 through wifi now, after setting the ethernet port as WAN through LuCI.
Actually I just restarted it and now I can’t connect at all, whether through wifi or ethernet. Looks like it’s time for another reset.
Its not a bug you clearly do not have IP assigned yet. So there is no way for it to work. Post some screenshots or config files maybe you disabled dhcp server or its listening on wrong interface. Try setting your IP manually and see if then you have connectivity
Well, I reset it again. Back to the original “Minimal or Local Server” page.
What do I do now? 
You choose router mode. Minimal will give you no DHCP server.
How do I choose router mode?
Well thats weird and some limitation of Reforis it seems. Then you need to set it up manually in LuCi as a router. Choose Local server for now. And let me know when you enter LuCi we will set it up.
Now when I think of it. It makes sense because if you have only one ethernet port then if something is wrong with your WiFi then you have no way to access the router and fix it. So think twice.
Another thing I may think of is add a managed switch before router that is used to add ethernet ports so WAN cable is bridged to your router and you still have some ports for access. Using VLANs. So the only port you have is used as trunk.
Stupid idea its a MOX so you may just do proper way and add module with ethernet ports. And there would be no need for workarounds and Router mode possible in Reforis.
Ok so now pay attention to do only “Save” for now not “Save and apply”.
Go to Devices tab and click Configure br-lan there you would have Bridge ports so there should be as you can see in (parenthesis) your eth port and wifi networks. Wifi might be not there actually it might be selected in Wireless section. Nvm.
So deselect your ethernet port so its not part of br-lan. And then go back to interfaces tab and edit your WAN interface and there you put your only ethernet port. Just be sure you are actually connected via WiFi before doing so. And each time save only. And post a screen from Interfaces tab
Actually one more thing would be needed. In Devices tab. Click on Configure for br-lan and make sure Bring up empty bridge is checked. Because when there are only wireless interfaces in the bridge when nothing is connected then wireless interface is down and so the br-lan. And you want that up all time.
br-lan shows up twice. Which one do I edit, the first or the second?
Also, if I try to edit either one, it won’t let me save and the Device name is in red:
Shouldn’t be duplicated in general. I guess its because of it using the same name. Why is it like this not sure. Ok click on Reset for ONE of the br-lan it should disappear. And do stuff I wrote before.
