Why Can't My OpenWrt Start PBR?

For the past six months, I’ve been following the tutorials from fernvenue’s blog posts, “Trying OpenWrt on the NX30 Pro” and “Configuring Policy-Based Routing on OpenWrt”, to set up a similar configuration at my place. This has made my internet experience smoother and my network traffic management clearer. However, I once encountered an issue where PBR wouldn’t start after reinstalling OpenWrt. The download and installation of PBR went fine, and it would even start correctly without any profiles enabled....

August 14, 2025 · 2 min