Looking for testers for MerVLAN

[jksmurf]

VLANs will be tunneled from WiFi -> WifI. Not from VLAN -> VLAN.

As the tunnel is not VLAN aware, real VLANs are stripped.

Sorry if this is clear to most folks but what are the properties of a “real” VLAN tunnel that this Wi-Fi - Wi-Fi tunnel cannot provide?

If all I wanted was for a downstream device (let’s say the ESP32 Bluetooth Proxy in the discussion i linked to earlier in this thread) to be connected to the Ethernet port of a Node, and for it to be assigned (or retain if static) an IoT Network IP address, either from the DHCP manual assignment list or dynamically, does it matter if that “mesage” to do so is sent over Wi-Fi rather than VLAN?

If it gives me this one functionality I’d be very happy to have it work that way, it seems Asus are?

 

[Seth Harman]

Installed just now, had the same issue with generating SSH keys, did a full uninstall and noticed the MerVLAN tab still showing inside LAN even after a full uninstall. Clicking on it errors out.

 

[jksmurf]

A quick question on the functionality of MerVLAN, for my remote system I ended up getting (but haven’t installed yet) nearly all VLAN capable router/nodes (as MerVLAN wasn’t in existence yet ) but I still have a non-VLAN node on that network. This system is all wired between main and nodes.

If I wanted to use ASUS VLAN setup for the VLAN capable nodes, but MerVLAN for that one node simultaneously, will that work? i.e. can they coexist or do you either go the whole hog with Asus or with MerVLAN but not both? Thank you.

 

[r80xcore]

Installed just now, had the same issue with generating SSH keys, did a full uninstall and noticed the MerVLAN tab still showing inside LAN even after a full uninstall. Clicking on it errors out.

Yes this is a blunder from me from when i changed the placement of the addon from Tools to LAN. I forgot to update the uninstall so the page is still there.

Right now im fixing the SSH issue, then ill fix the uninstall. Shouldnt take too long.

 

[Seth Harman]

Yes this is a blunder from me from when i changed the placement of the addon from Tools to LAN. I forgot to update the uninstall so the page is still there.

Right now im fixing the SSH issue, then ill fix the uninstall. Shouldnt take too long.

No worries. More than happy to help test this. I did notice some interface oddities but 1) it might just be me, and 2) that kind of thing is less important than working through these initial issues so we'll worry about those later.

 

[Seth Harman]

By the way, we should probably move this entire discussion over to AsusWRT-Merlin AddOns area of the board.

 

[r80xcore]

No worries. More than happy to help test this. I did notice some interface oddities but 1) it might just be me, and 2) that kind of thing is less important than working through these initial issues so we'll worry about those later.

Fix is up now. It was pointing to the wrong directory so the symlink would never be created. I would recomment this flow right now:

Full install

mkdir -p /jffs/addons/mervlan && /usr/sbin/curl -fsL --retry 3 "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/r80xcore/mervlan/refs/heads/main/install.sh" -o "/jffs/addons/mervlan/install.sh" && chmod 0755 /jffs/addons/mervlan/install.sh && /jffs/addons/mervlan/install.sh full

Then full Uninstall (to take care of leftovers)

/jffs/addons/mervlan/uninstall.sh full

Then full install again. Hopefully this will fix the problems.

If you see oddities or something, please screenshot if possible.
One oddity that is there is that the page looks scrambled for a second wen entering it before the css build it up.

 

[visortgw]

Fix is up now. It was pointing to the wrong directory so the symlink would never be created. I would recomment this flow right now:

Full install

mkdir -p /jffs/addons/mervlan && /usr/sbin/curl -fsL --retry 3 "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/r80xcore/mervlan/refs/heads/main/install.sh" -o "/jffs/addons/mervlan/install.sh" && chmod 0755 /jffs/addons/mervlan/install.sh && /jffs/addons/mervlan/install.sh full

Then full Uninstall (to take care of leftovers)

/jffs/addons/mervlan/uninstall.sh full

Then full install again. Hopefully this will fix the problems.

If you see oddities or something, please screenshot if possible.
One oddity that is there is that the page looks scrambled for a second wen entering it before the css build it up.

I believe that i'm running up against alternate ssh port now:

2025-11-08 16:56:22 [INFO] === VLAN Manager File Synchronization ===
2025-11-08 16:56:22 [INFO]
2025-11-08 16:56:22 [INFO] ✓ SSH key verification passed
2025-11-08 16:56:22 [INFO] Found nodes: 192.168.222.252
2025-11-08 16:56:22 [INFO] Starting file synchronization...
2025-11-08 16:56:22 [INFO] Processing node: 192.168.222.252
2025-11-08 16:56:22 [ERROR] ✗ SSH connection failed to 192.168.222.252
2025-11-08 16:56:22 [INFO]    Check if SSH key is properly installed on the node

 

[r80xcore]

This conversation is continued in the main thread. MerVLAN addon