Rt-ac68 with a bad wan port

[Pierino]

I just bought a used rt-ac68r that turned out to have a non functioning wan port.
I've installed dd-wrt on it and assigned one of the lan ports to be the wan port.
Since I only have one hard wired pc to it, I don't need all 4 lan ports.

I was curious if there is a way to do this with RMerlin firmware? If there isn't is it something that could be added in the future?

I guess I'm hoping Eric can answer that. Tia.

 

[RMerlin]

If you enable Asuswrt's Dual WAN, you can configure a LAN port as a WAN port. That's the only supported way to do so, and I have no plan on changing that.

 

[Pierino]

Thank you. I will try it.

 

[RMerlin]

Make sure to set dualwan mode to failover, as you will only be using one of the two WAN interfaces.

 

[Pierino]

Ok, I've never had to use dual wan, so I'm not familiar with it but I will take a look. Flashing it back to your build now.

 

[Pierino]

Works perfectly. Now I've got a backup rt-ac68 for $30. Not bad.
Thanks Eric.

 

[Pierino]

Well, it worked for one day. No response on serial console. She is dead.