Additional VLAN 3 for WAN2 on tl-wr1043nd-v2, tl-wdr3600-v1 and tl-wdr4300-v1 OpenWRT / LEDE

additional-vlan3-for-wan2.sh

# This is done by luci (it just sets defaults and assigns an ID to each vlan entry)
uci set network.@switch[0].mirror_source_port='0'
uci set network.@switch[0].mirror_monitor_port='0'
uci set network.@switch_vlan[0].vid='1'
uci set network.@switch_vlan[1].vid='2'

# For tl-wr1043nd-v2:
# Switch, LAN (on tl-wr1043nd-v2 we must enable tagging on CPU port 0)
uci set network.@switch_vlan[0].ports='0t 1 2 3 4' # previously '0 1 2 3 4'
# Switch, WAN
uci set network.@switch_vlan[1].ports='5 6t' #  previously '5 6'
# Network, LAN
uci set network.lan.ifname='eth1.1' # vlan 1, previously 'eth1'
# for some reason wan seems to work only on vlan2 (may be need to be on CPU port 6)
uci set network.wan.ifname='eth0.2' # vlan 2, previously 'eth0'
# So far, the networks works as previous but now with VLAN Enabled

# For tl-wdr3600-v1 and tl-wdr4300-v1 (commands just show current state, it comes already like this)
uci set network.@switch_vlan[0].ports='0t 2 3 4 5' # (already like this)
# Switch, WAN
uci set network.@switch_vlan[1].ports='0t 1' # (already like this)
# Network, LAN
uci set network.lan.ifname='eth0.1' # vlan 1, (already like this)
# for some reason wan seems to work only on vlan2
uci set network.wan.ifname='eth0.2' # vlan 2, (already like this)

# Add additional VLAN 3 for WAN2 (switch_vlan index [-1] is same as [2])
uci add network switch_vlan # will be created with index 2 (network.@switch_vlan[2])
uci set network.@switch_vlan[-1].device='switch0'
uci set network.@switch_vlan[-1].vlan='3'
uci set network.@switch_vlan[-1].vid='3'

# For tl-wr1043nd-v2:
# Now we do physical port 1 (logic port 4) as tagged in vlan 3, removing it from vlan 0
uci set network.@switch_vlan[0].ports='0t 1 2 3' # previously '0 1 2 3 4'
uci set network.@switch_vlan[2].ports='0t 4'
# set vlan3 new device to network wan2
uci set network.wan2='interface'
uci set network.wan2.ifname='eth1.3'
uci set network.wan2.proto='dhcp'

# For tl-wdr3600-v1 and tl-wdr4300-v1
# Now we do physical port 1 (logic port 2) as tagged in vlan 3
uci set network.@switch_vlan[0].ports='0t 3 4 5' # previously '0t 2 3 4 5'
uci set network.@switch_vlan[2].ports='0t 2'
# set vlan3 new device to network wan2
uci set network.wan2='interface'
uci set network.wan2.ifname='eth0.3'
uci set network.wan2.proto='dhcp'

i've attempted to use your setup script with lede-17.01.2-ar71xx-generic-tl-wr1043nd-v2-squashfs-factory with a fresh install but it fails could you post your complete configs for your wrt1043 to see where i'm going wrong

Where is the fail? have you seen some error when running commands ?, may be is this: https://gist.github.com/braian87b/ab2dfdef72d507a18b057a5831eb1337/revisions?diff=unified#diff-30534490b913940499a6922d647a2d4a
those line were commented and are needed in order to have working wan2 network interface, try again and let me know so I could correct it properly. You should keep in mind that you need to add the net network interface to proper firewall zone wan for example... and if you want to use it you will need to setup routing, if you need failover/highavailability you could set up your own script or check out https://forum.lede-project.org/t/policy-routing-luci-ui/5390, if you need more complex rules you will need to use mwan3 https://gist.github.com/braian87b/97a186b2e11b5aa438d8fd17de0eab20 but keep in mind that have some fails on LEDE specially when trying to use IPv6.

Here is how I did it https://gist.github.com/tiagonmas/48ec43ba281c220e544ca55eea9384cd