Firstly, I’d like to apologise, I am new to GL-iNet and OpenWRT. Hence why I’m requesting assistance.
I have a wifi network on Ubiquiti devices at home that present any wifi access as ethernet to my MT6000.
I’m now trying to set up with a GUEST wifi network to attach to my MT6000. I have set up the GUEST network on the Ubiquiti WiFi to VLAN 100, leaving my main home network on VLAN 1. The MT6000 doesn’t need to consider wifi, just the routing of tagged ethernet VLAN’s (VLAN 1 & VLAN 100). I do not use MT6000 wifi at all and it is switched off.
I also have a BERYL which I travel with (in all honesty the key reason I’ve purchased the MT6000 & Beryl) and use this for access to my main home network using WireGuard VPN with the VPN hub hosted on my MT6000 accessed via DDNS. I also use the GUEST wifi on the BERYL to allow relatives travelling with me to appear at my home location when travelling but prevent access to my home network (recent feature in V4.8 of the BERYL software)
Now comes my issue, how to configure the MT6000 for my home GUEST environment to share the same internet connection as my home network
My Ubiquiti network will handle the WiFi element and separate traffic to the different VLAN’s but I’m looking for the MT6000 to provide the DCHP (Different Class C range in 192.168.x.x to main network (VLAN1) ) and also connectivity to the Internet for both, whilst keeping the traffic separate from each other so that anyone on VLAN1 can access the devices on my home network and the Internet and anyone on VLAN100 can ONLY access the Internet. The BERYL will not need access to VLAN100.
I’ve no experience on OpenWrt and have only used the GUI to configure my MT6000 to date. The GUI doesn’t seem to allow me to set-up VLAN’s (or at least I haven’t found this ability), so I’m really hoping for help on the MT6000 configuration activity.
If the solution is within planned software release (ie V4.8 on MT6000) then I’m happy to wait
Any help our questions to allow help will be massively appreciated
From your post, it appears that you may not know about the Advanced GUI (a.k.a. LUCI OpenWRT interface). Once you check out that GUI that is built into the Flint 2, and do a little research on how to configure additional LAN’s and VLAN’s in that OpenWRT GUI, then you’ll be able to setup what you’re describing.
Here’s a thread that has an associated video of configuring VLAN’s in the Advanced LUCI OpenWRT GUI.
Also, if the Flint 2’s Guest WLAN is not enabled, then the associated Guest LAN network will not be enabled and won’t work at all. So since you aren’t using the Guest WLAN on the Flint 2, then you could create another IP based LAN network in the Advanced LUCI OpenWRT GUI assigned to the Guest Firewall just like the Guest LAN with your VLAN 100 assigned to it.
Given you don't need Wi-Fi so you may not care about the SDK's optimizations, you should really consider dropping the GL.iNet firmware & go just pure OWRT. That'll ensure there's no conflicts w/ GL's customizations when using LuCI on their firmware... because they won't be there! You can always flash back to v4.8.x if needed.
Then subscribe to Van Tech Corner over on Youtube. You'll see why.
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