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vlord

vlord

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I have wl0.1 and wl1.1 setup as guest wireless access on my home network. I maintain and run internal DNS, however, these servers are not accessible from the guest network. I would like to setup the guest network to utilise external DNS for resolution. Following some other posts, I have configured /jffs/config/dnsmasq.conf as follows:

Code: 
ASUSWRT-Merlin RT-AC66U_3.0.0.4 Sun Aug 25 02:38:25 UTC 2013
admin@LH-RTR:/tmp/home/root# cat /jffs/configs/dnsmasq.conf 
pid-file=/var/run/dnsmasq.pid
user=nobody
resolv-file=/tmp/resolv.conf
no-poll
interface=br0
min-port=4096
domain=lords-house.net
expand-hosts
no-negcache
cache-size=1500
dhcp-range=lan,192.168.212.100,192.168.212.199,255.255.255.0,86400s
dhcp-lease-max=253
dhcp-authoritative
dhcp-option=lan,15,lords-house.net
dhcp-option=lan,3,192.168.212.1
dhcp-option=lan,6,192.168.212.5,192.168.212.6
interface=wl0.1
dhcp-range=wl0.1,192.168.212.200,192.168.212.224,255.255.255.0,3600s
dhcp-option=wl0.1,15,24guest.local
dhcp-option=wl0.1,3,192.168.212.1
dhcp-option=wl0.1,6,75.75.75.75,76.76.76.76
interface=wl1.1
dhcp-range=wl1.1,192.168.212.225,192.168.212.250,255.255.255.0,3600s
dhcp-option=wl1.1,15,58guest.local
dhcp-option=wl1.1,3,192.168.212.1
dhcp-option=wl1.1,6,75.75.75.75,76.76.76.76
admin@LH-RTR:/tmp/home/root#

The result of the above is that wl0.1 and wl1.1 are not following the rules that I intended above.

Suggestions?
 
In troubleshooting my own issue, this is from my logs:

Code: 
Sep 17 09:20:57 dnsmasq[635]: warning: interface wl0.1 does not currently exist

Normally you can find the names in /etc/config/network but that doesn't exist on this build. Any ideas where to look for interface names and/or how to set wl0.1 to an interface name?
 
vlord said:
In troubleshooting my own issue, this is from my logs:

Code: 
Sep 17 09:20:57 dnsmasq[635]: warning: interface wl0.1 does not currently exist

Normally you can find the names in /etc/config/network but that doesn't exist on this build. Any ideas where to look for interface names and/or how to set wl0.1 to an interface name?
Click to expand...

That simply means that dnsmasq was started before virtual interfaces got set up. That's not necessarily an indication of a problem.
 
Stopped and restarted dnsmasq after verifying wl0.1 is up.

Code: 
admin@LH-RTR:/rom# ifconfig -a
br0        Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 50:46:5D:D1:81:A0  
           inet addr:192.168.212.1  Bcast:192.168.212.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:392192 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:252743 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
           RX bytes:57023881 (54.3 MiB)  TX bytes:52419948 (49.9 MiB)

eth0       Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 50:46:5D:D1:81:A0  
           inet addr:71.230.212.208  Bcast:71.230.215.255  Mask:255.255.248.0
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:5027089 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:3261167 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
           RX bytes:2749316963 (2.5 GiB)  TX bytes:837842192 (799.0 MiB)
           Interrupt:4 Base address:0x2000 

eth1       Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 50:46:5D:D1:81:A0  
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:330793 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:159776
           TX packets:529863 errors:18 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
           RX bytes:120601549 (115.0 MiB)  TX bytes:287895893 (274.5 MiB)
           Interrupt:3 Base address:0x8000 

eth2       Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 50:46:5D:D1:81:A4  
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:303967 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:3338850
           TX packets:1385264 errors:36 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
           RX bytes:50052432 (47.7 MiB)  TX bytes:1822780939 (1.6 GiB)
           Interrupt:5 Base address:0x8000 

lo         Link encap:Local Loopback  
           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:16436  Metric:1
           RX packets:689 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:689 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
           RX bytes:136779 (133.5 KiB)  TX bytes:136779 (133.5 KiB)

vlan1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 50:46:5D:D1:81:A0  
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:1428382 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:1494988 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
           RX bytes:204204271 (194.7 MiB)  TX bytes:522456027 (498.2 MiB)

vlan2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 50:46:5D:D1:81:A0  
           BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
           RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

wl0.1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 50:46:5D:D1:81:A1  
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:1824 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:159776
           TX packets:55354 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
           RX bytes:183931 (179.6 KiB)  TX bytes:9313875 (8.8 MiB)

wl1.1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 50:46:5D:D1:81:A5  
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:3338850
           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
           RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

admin@LH-RTR:/rom#

Code: 
Sep 17 13:53:35 dnsmasq[670]: started, version 2.65 cachesize 1500
Sep 17 13:53:35 dnsmasq[670]: compile time options: IPv6 GNU-getopt no-RTC no-DBus no-i18n no-IDN DHCP DHCPv6 no-Lua TFTP no-conntrack
Sep 17 13:53:35 dnsmasq[670]: warning: interface wl0.1 does not currently exist
Sep 17 13:53:35 dnsmasq-dhcp[670]: DHCP, IP range 192.168.22.200 -- 192.168.22.224, lease time 1h
Sep 17 13:53:35 dnsmasq-dhcp[670]: DHCP, IP range 192.168.212.100 -- 192.168.212.199, lease time 1d
 
What appears to be happening is that my guest wireless lan is pinned to br0 for DHCP:

Note my iphone receiving DHCP across br0.

Code: 
Sep 17 14:51:45 dnsmasq[928]: started, version 2.65 cachesize 1500
Sep 17 14:51:45 dnsmasq[928]: compile time options: IPv6 GNU-getopt no-RTC no-DBus no-i18n no-IDN DHCP DHCPv6 no-Lua TFTP no-conntrack
Sep 17 14:51:45 dnsmasq-dhcp[928]: DHCP, IP range 192.168.22.200 -- 192.168.22.224, lease time 1h
Sep 17 14:51:45 dnsmasq-dhcp[928]: DHCP, IP range 192.168.212.100 -- 192.168.212.199, lease time 1d
Sep 17 14:51:45 dnsmasq[928]: read /etc/hosts - 5 addresses
Sep 17 14:51:45 dnsmasq[928]: using nameserver 75.75.76.76#53
Sep 17 14:51:45 dnsmasq[928]: using nameserver 75.75.75.75#53
Sep 17 14:52:29 dnsmasq-dhcp[928]: DHCPREQUEST(br0) 192.168.212.168 3c:d0:f8:30:56:e9 
Sep 17 14:52:29 dnsmasq-dhcp[928]: DHCPACK(br0) 192.168.212.168 3c:d0:f8:30:56:e9 Vincents-iPhone
 
In doing some further research, br0 is a bridge interface of all the internal available interfaces:

Code: 
admin@LH-RTR:/tmp/home/root# brctl show
bridge name	bridge id		STP enabled	interfaces
br0		8000.50465dd181a0	yes		vlan1
							eth1
							eth2
							wl0.1
							wl1.1

I deleted wl0.1 and wl1.1 from br0 and created a br1 with IP 192.168.2.1.

Code: 
admin@LH-RTR:/tmp/home/root# brctl show
bridge name	bridge id		STP enabled	interfaces
br0		8000.50465dd181a0	yes		vlan1
							eth1
							eth2
br1		8000.50465dd181a1	yes		wl0.1
							wl1.1

I then killall dnsmasq and changed /etc/dnsmasq.conf (get this to work real time then focus on storing changes for reboot).

Code: 
admin@LH-RTR:/tmp/home/root# cat /etc/dnsmasq.conf 
pid-file=/var/run/dnsmasq.pid
user=nobody
resolv-file=/tmp/resolv.conf
no-poll
except-interface=eth0
min-port=4096
domain=lords-house.net
expand-hosts
no-negcache
cache-size=1500
dhcp-range=br0,192.168.212.100,192.168.212.199,255.255.255.0,86400s
dhcp-lease-max=253
dhcp-authoritative
dhcp-option=br0,15,lords-house.net
dhcp-option=br0,3,192.168.212.1
dhcp-option=br0,6,192.168.212.5,192.168.212.6
dhcp-range=br1,192.168.2.100,192.168.2.200,255.255.255.0,3600s
dhcp-option=br1,15,guest.local
dhcp-option=br1,3,192.168.2.1
dhcp-option=br1,6,75.75.75.75,76.76.76.76
admin@LH-RTR:/tmp/home/root#

Result was then when asking for dhcp was still pinned to br0:
Code: 
Sep 17 17:12:22 dnsmasq[571]: started, version 2.65 cachesize 1500
Sep 17 17:12:22 dnsmasq[571]: compile time options: IPv6 GNU-getopt no-RTC no-DBus no-i18n no-IDN DHCP DHCPv6 no-Lua TFTP no-conntrack
Sep 17 17:12:22 dnsmasq-dhcp[571]: DHCP, IP range 192.168.2.100 -- 192.168.2.200, lease time 1h
Sep 17 17:12:22 dnsmasq-dhcp[571]: DHCP, IP range 192.168.212.100 -- 192.168.212.199, lease time 1d
Sep 17 17:12:22 dnsmasq[571]: read /etc/hosts - 5 addresses
Sep 17 17:12:22 dnsmasq[571]: using nameserver 75.75.76.76#53
Sep 17 17:12:22 dnsmasq[571]: using nameserver 75.75.75.75#53
Sep 17 17:12:42 dnsmasq-dhcp[571]: DHCPREQUEST(br0) 192.168.212.168 3c:d0:f8:30:56:e9 
Sep 17 17:12:42 dnsmasq-dhcp[571]: DHCPACK(br0) 192.168.212.168 3c:d0:f8:30:56:e9 Vincents-iPhone

And so I'm still stuck..

Thoughts or suggestions on how to have my guest wireless separated with different dhcp scope and dns servers? I saw some other threads where people were trying to do something similar but didn't see a particular success thread.
 
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