Creating virtual wireless interfaces outside of UI

[cybergibbons]

I'm not keen on only being able to do things through the UI. At the moment I am using my RT-AC66U to take three VLANs in via the WAN port and split them to three distinct 5GHz WiFi SSIDs. No routing is done by the RT-AC66U at all.

The only way I have found to create these wl virtual wireless interfaces is using the guest WiFi network UI.

Is there anyway to do it from the command line?

 

[huotg01]

I'm not keen on only being able to do things through the UI. At the moment I am using my RT-AC66U to take three VLANs in via the WAN port and split them to three distinct 5GHz WiFi SSIDs. No routing is done by the RT-AC66U at all.

The only way I have found to create these wl virtual wireless interfaces is using the guest WiFi network UI.

Is there anyway to do it from the command line?

I'm not sure I well understand what you want to do, but a good place to start would be here: https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin/wiki

 

[cybergibbons]

What I means is that through the UI, you have the ability to create virtual wireless interfaces on the "Guest network" page:

These show as wl0.1 (2.4GHz) and wl1.1 (5GHz) through ifconfig:

wl0.1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 74:D0:2B:88:AC:D9  
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:66 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:4229
           TX packets:595 errors:2 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
           RX bytes:7928 (7.7 KiB)  TX bytes:124164 (121.2 KiB)

wl1.1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 74:D0:2B:88:AC:DD  
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:5194 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:1658
           TX packets:6249 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
           RX bytes:934708 (912.8 KiB)  TX bytes:6400529 (6.1 MiB)

How can wl0.1 and wl1.1 be created without the UI?

I can't find any reference to this in the forums or wiki.

 

[RMerlin]

You can't do that easily, as there's a lot of nvram settings that have to be set to configure a whole virtual wireless interface. It's not just a matter of running a simple ifconfig command with a few parameters.

 

[cybergibbons]

Yeah - I just came to the same conclusion by diffing the nvram settings.

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