Disabling Guest Wifi at night?

[mrvoidman]

I'm looking for a shell script to disable a guest wifi SSID that I can schedule using cron. The parental control feature is too specific for my needs.

I have a RT-N66U running 3.0.0.4.374.35_4. I found the following commands on another post but they don't seem to do anything:

# Disable
wl down
wl ssid --cfg=1
wl ssid --cfg=1 ""
wl up

# Enable
wl down
wl ssid --cfg=1 "OLD_SSID"
wl up

Any other suggestions? Can a script change the password to lock people out and set it back again later?

 

[Martineau]

I'm looking for a shell script to disable a guest wifi SSID that I can schedule using cron. The parental control feature is too specific for my needs.

I have a RT-N66U running 3.0.0.4.374.35_4. I found the following commands on another post but they don't seem to do anything:

# Disable
wl down
wl ssid --cfg=1
wl ssid --cfg=1 ""
wl up

# Enable
wl down
wl ssid --cfg=1 "OLD_SSID"
wl up

Any other suggestions? Can a script change the password to lock people out and set it back again later?

Schedule a cron job using:

http://forums.smallnetbuilder.com/showpost.php?p=66327&postcount=2

and the commands/techniques to change the Guest SSID passwords are shown in

http://forums.smallnetbuilder.com/showthread.php?t=22700&highlight=%2Fdev%2Furandom

 

[mrvoidman]

The first link was exactly what I needed. Works perfectly. Thank you.

 

[redvers]

I suggest you comment out the nvram commit from your script; for something that will run every day, it's not really needed and may have an adverse impact on your flash memory longer term

 

[Nullity]

I suggest you comment out the nvram commit from your script; for something that will run every day, it's not really needed and may have an adverse impact on your flash memory longer term

Considering that the router is only "committing" a couple of small changes, are you sure that premature nvram failure is a concern?

 

[RMerlin]

Commit is only needed if you are applying a setting which you wish to survive a router reboot.