[Dnsmasq-discuss] Determine wireless SSID

[Donald Muller]

Petr, Daniel

Thanks for the suggestions. I checked on my router and I can set a VLAN for 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz networks but not for guest vs non guest.

Don

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> From: Dnsmasq-discuss <dnsmasq-discuss-bounces at lists.thekelleys.org.uk>
> On Behalf Of Daniel Huhardeaux
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2019 8:08 AM
> To: dnsmasq-discuss at lists.thekelleys.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Determine wireless SSID
> 
> 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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