This page will cover the procedure you need to take in order to get CoovaChilli up and running on a RouterBOARD 750Gr3 flashed with OpenWRT

The CoovaChilli that comes standard with the 19.07.x version of OpenWRT does not work well with RADIUSdesk and you need to create your own. That procedure we also thoroughly documented on a dedicated page.

We assume you have a Router freshly flashed with this built of OpenWRT

We will connect the Internet to the Internet port of the RB750 (Port1)

We will then configure Coova to run on the LAN side (Ports 2-5) which is where OpenWRT typically used to run its DHCP service and have a gatawat at 192.168.1.1

Because Coova will now remove the IP Address on the LAN side we have to open the firewall on the WAN side for us to still reach the device even with the captive portal in place and running.