gordonb3 wrote: > I have a somewhat older device, an Excito B3 (armv5, 1GHz, 2*Gb NIC + > Wifi). I don't actually use the second NIC adapter internally though > because this also serves as my internet router. What I did was enable > VLAN tagging on the internal NIC and create multiple SSIDs on the wifi > and then I bridged some of these virtual objects. Confused? > > WIFI: > The idea is the same as a guest wifi. Assuming you run Linux and your > machine has a wifi adapter, you need to install `hostapd`. The default > config should get you going to create a wifi AP. The next step is to > identify your adapter name and note it's MAC address but change the > first two digit number to become `02` (e.g. if you have > `09:ab:cd:ef:12:34` write down `02:ab:cd:ef:12:34`). In your > hostapd.conf add/edit the following directives: > > Code: -------------------- > > interface=<interface name> > bssid=<altered MAC address> -------------------- > > > I use a udev rule to override the so-called predictable names to > follow the old standard where the wifi adapter is wlan0. To create > additional SSIDs extend the hostapd.conf with directives like the > following: > > Code: -------------------- > > bss=wlan0_0 > ssid=squeezeplay > > bss=wlan0_1 > ssid=guest > > bss=wlan0_2 > ssid= privileged > wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK > wpa_pairwise=CCMP > wpa=3 > wpa_passphrase=ExtremelySecretPassword -------------------- > > > > Note that the original wlan0 is your primary SSID, so if you add all > of the above you will have 4 wifi networks in total. Of course all of > these need their own static IP address and you require a DHCP server > to distribute IP addresses to connecting machines. Despite its name, > `dnsmasq` works excellent for this. > > VLAN TAGGING > In a nutshell this means that you wrap your network traffic in an > additional envelope. Both peers must support it, meaning that you > require a switch that is able to understand this protocol (802.11q). > Since however the switch can either add or strip the additional VLAN > tag you do not need to make changes to other devices as well, but you > will have to mark which physical port on the switch is linked to what > VLAN.Thank you for going into trouble of this comprehensive answer..
I will try get my head around it when I find a minute.. I mean quite few hours to scratch my head.. I think my main problem was fact that due to rural location my lan is actually already vlan of next-door meraki router managed by isp (it was only way to get fibre speed connection) So not sure if I can create another vlan within vlan( like nested vlan) without admin access to main router.. I do have switch with vlan capability and few openwrt routers acting as dumb AP mesh wifi so few possible options are there. However I remember worrying about double NAT as dhcp is running on managed router next door. Not sure if that's relevant to vlans or not.. I can request some vlan config changes from isp, but I would need to be actually sure I know what I'm doing [emoji23].. 3x Squeezebox Touch, 4x Squeezebox Radio, Squeezelite (RPi 3B with HiFiBerry DAC+Pro on OSMC), Material Skin Apk, Squeeze Commander, Logitech Media Server Version: 8.2.0 with Material Skin (Docker in DS218+) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jaca's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58187 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=115017 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
