Anybody has any success setting up Vera3 as a network switch? There is no option to setup Vera3 as a network switch, there are only 3 options in Vera3 compared with the HowTo/Wiki where there is 4 options. The option “3.Through another gateway on my network. Vera is a switch” does not exist.
The LAN ports and wifi port are already switched; how do you want the DHCP to work? Vera as a client or server? Or no dhcp on Vera at all?
I want Vera WIFI and Lan Ports to be on the same network as the WAN port - if i disable DHCP would it pull the WAN/LAN/WIFI IPs from my main router and work as a switch?
If you want to bridge between the LAN and WAN ports you’ll need to delve into the LuCI interface (net & wifi → setup → advanced…) but MCV won’t give you support on that, and they’ve removed the link from the latest firmware because so many people have bricked their units by altering the config. I think they also said that the LuCI front end hasn’t been made compatible with Vera3 which might explain the bricking.
Alternatively you could probably set it up from a shell session via ssh, but I’m afraid I wouldn’t know what to tell you.
I’m going to guess about the hardware config that the LAN sockets are ethernet switched in hardware, while the WAN port would need to be bridged in the OS which would be very slow, too. Just a guess.
Are you quite sure that the four LAN ethernet sockets aren’t enough, and that you really need to bridge to that fifth, WAN one? Why not just forget the WAN port and use the LAN ports?
if i disable DHCP would it pull the WAN/LAN/WIFI IPs from my main router and work as a switch?There are two ends to the DHCP thing - clent, and server. By default Vera runs a client on the WAN port so will pull an ip address from your other router when connected via the WAN port. On the LAN and wifi side it runs a DHCP server offering leases on 192.168.81.x (from memory).
You can turn off the DHCP server on the LAN side, and change the IP address to one that matches the network of your router (not in the router’s lease range though, to avoid a collision). That much you can do from the UI5 interface.
If you want to enable the DHCP client on the LAN side so that Vera picks up an address from your router then you’ll need to dig a bit deeper, I don’t see that option in the UI5 interface. But it should be do-able if you’re minded.
Clearly there’s no scenario when running a DHCP server and a DHCP client on the same interface on the same box makes any sense.
Do you retain access to Vera that way?
As a well-behaved linux box, Vera should respond via any IP address of an active interface.
I asked this same question a few weeks ago and had several responses directly from MCV.
I have a Vera 3 and a Vera 2. I wanted to use each as a switch with DHCP turned off because I wanted my primary router to assign all IP addresses in my network. Any device connected to the Vera could then access the internet and have an assigned IP that fell with in a range of my choosing. This worked great with Vera 2 on with UI4 and UI5 when I upgraded. When I setup the Vera3 with exactly the same settings, it did not work. I could not connect to the internet on any device connected to Vera 3 if DHCP was turned off. I could connect only if I turned DHCP back on.
I contacted MCV and had a prompt response. After several email exchanges, they determined that it was not possible to turn DHCP off to use Vera 3 as a switch and connect to the internet. Hopefully this will be fixed on future versions.
I guess it takes a bunch of turkeys as talented as MCV to f*ck things up that badly. What can you do.
I could not connect to the internet on any device connected to Vera 3 if DHCP was turned off.Do you mean the you could not connect when the DHCP client on the WAN interface was turned off? That sounds like a routing problem - specifically the absence of a default route. You can add that manually via ssh if you want, or from the LuCI interface. You won't get support from MCV for that though.
Related thread at:
http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,9264.msg61129.html#msg61129
-IlDavo-