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  1. ifup error

    Hi,

    I met following problem:

    - I cannot access Internet on my PC via WL-700gE, but the router can (rtoerrent works, ping works etc.)

    - if I release command ifup lan, I get this error message:

    "/sbin/ifup: export: 5: CONFIG_--help_ifname: bad variable name"

    What can cause this?

    Here is my /sbin/ifup:

    #!/bin/sh
    # Copyright (C) 2006 OpenWrt.org

    . /sbin/ifdown "$@"

    config_get iftype "$1" type
    config_get ifname "$1" device

    for dev in $ifname; do
    setup_interface "$dev" "$1"
    done

    Otherwise ifdown command returns the same error message.

  2. Solution

    I found out the cause, it placed in /var/state/network. If you see more closer, you can notice: it contains a little trash (probably X-Wrt interface can generate it), I commented out it:

    config_set 'loopback' 'ifname' 'lo'
    config_set 'loopback' 'up' '1'
    config_set 'lan' 'ifname' 'br-lan'
    config_set 'lan' 'up' '1'
    #config_set '--help' 'ifname' '-help_device'
    config_set 'loopback' 'ifname' 'lo'
    config_set 'loopback' 'up' '1'
    config_set 'lan' 'ifname' 'br-lan'
    config_set 'lan' 'up' '1'
    config_set 'loopback' 'ifname' 'lo'
    config_set 'loopback' 'up' '1'
    config_set 'lan' 'ifname' 'br-lan'
    config_set 'lan' 'up' '1'
    config_set 'loopback' 'ifname' 'lo'
    config_set 'loopback' 'up' '1'
    config_set 'lan' 'ifname' 'br-lan'
    config_set 'lan' 'up' '1'
    config_set 'loopback' 'ifname' 'lo'
    config_set 'loopback' 'up' '1'
    config_set 'lan' 'ifname' 'br-lan'
    config_set 'lan' 'up' '1'
    config_set 'loopback' 'ifname' 'lo'
    config_set 'loopback' 'up' '1'
    config_set 'wan' 'ifname' 'eth0.1'
    config_set 'wan' 'ifname' 'ppp0'
    config_set 'lan' 'ifname' 'br-lan'
    config_set 'lan' 'up' '1'
    config_set 'loopback' 'ifname' 'lo'
    config_set 'loopback' 'up' '1'
    config_set 'wan' 'ifname' 'eth0.1'
    config_set 'wan' 'ifname' 'ppp0'
    config_set 'lan' 'ifname' 'br-lan'
    config_set 'lan' 'up' '1'
    config_set 'loopback' 'ifname' 'lo'
    config_set 'loopback' 'up' '1'
    config_set 'wan' 'ifname' 'eth0.1'
    config_set 'wan' 'ifname' 'ppp0'
    config_set 'lan' 'ifname' 'br-lan'
    config_set 'lan' 'up' '1'

    If you remove this trash, ifup, ifdown etc. will work. Good luck!

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