Cannot change LAN ip address

Describe the bug

LAN IP address does no change and router becomes unreachable after trying to change LAN ip.

OpenWrt version

25.12.0-rc1

OpenWrt release

r32353-9e9b05130c

OpenWrt target/subtarget

ath79/generic

Device

TP-Link Archer C7 v5

Image kind

Official downloaded image

Steps to reproduce

uci set network.lan.ipaddr='192.168.20.1' uci commit network /etc/init.d/network reload

Actual behaviour

LAN IP address does no change and not possible to connect to router anymore even after reboot.

Expected behaviour

Should be able to connect to router via new LAN IP address .

Additional info

I tried the same thing (change LAN ip) using luci, but the same issue.

Diffconfig

Terms

• I am reporting an issue for OpenWrt, not an unsupported fork.