[Dnsmasq-discuss] Determine wireless SSID

Daniel Huhardeaux tech at tootai.net
Tue Jan 29 13:08:18 GMT 2019


Hello,

I did it like Petr say, setting up 2 SSID in wireless router, each of 
them in a different VLAN (my wireless router has this possibility). With 
Tags you can also set different GW or DNS or ...

Le 28/01/2019 à 20:47, Petr Mensik a écrit :
> Hi Donald,
> 
> it is kind of possible. But usually there is another way to solve your
> situation.
> 
> First of all, you want to assign guests different addresses. Why would
> you want that? I think you want to separate them from internal network.
> Good design. However, that means they should be coming from different
> network device. Just need to map device request is coming from to
> different range and tag.
> 
> Or maybe better, have separate instances listening just on given
> interface. For example have guest network have VLAN 1, internal VLAN 2.
> Run dnsmasq with bind-interfaces, interface=eth0.1 and so on.
> Another instance with interface=eth0.2, etc. It would separate
> physically guests from home users, would allow firewall separation as
> well. Possibly just one direction.
> 
> It would not be simple setup I am afraid. Requires a lot of
> configuration outside dnsmasq. I guess you are looking for some simple
> configuration. I am afraid I do not know simpler setup.
> 
> Is this somehow simplified in OpenWRT for example?
> 
> Cheers,
> Petr
> 
> On 1/11/19 10:58 PM, Donald Muller wrote:
>> This is probably not possible but I thought I would ask.
>>
>> Is it possible for DNSMASQ to determine the SSID for a DHCP request? I would like to be able to assign different values for devices using the guest network. DNSMASQ is running on my QNAP NAS while I have a Netgear wireless router providing the wireless connectivity.
>>
>> Thanks

-- 
Daniel



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