Hello
Anyone had any luck with configuring VLANs in LuCi on Flint 3?
Regards
morcheba
I am using Flint 3 as AP, another x86 machine as router.
On Flint 3, set VLAN using command line via SSH.
Luci does not work.
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Thanks for the tip, I will give it a go at the next opportunity 
Luci seems to work, it is using the old openwrt switch configuration, I was able to creat vlan for a local management interface and it works (surprisingly no matter if i use the wan or lan ports), but im unable to bridge vlan interfaces for wireless association.
Any info will help including command lines, i know my way around luci but less on the openwrt cli.
Hi,
Please refer to this post:
I've managed to create all the vlans as i wanted on the Flint 3, the process is fairly similar as with the Flint 2, usually i do cleanups of interfaces and other conf that come default, but i wanted to create the least confilct with the double gui in the gl.inet.
My router has two SSIDs for lan (which is actually another net from my wired lan) and guests, both span on more than one AP in my home (the gl.inet default guest seems to be local to the router only) so I have 5 vlans:
1 lan
2 mng
3 wifi1 - lan2
4 wifi2 - guests
5 internet.
Added only on switch1, left switch0 unchanged, I left vlan1 as it was untagged on all ports (notice that cpu port is tagged even for vlan 1) and all the other vlans on all ports as tagged.
The most challenging was the guests. in luci on the guest interface you see interface which doesn't exist..... I left it be and didn't tough it....
First of all i disabled hardware acceleration, I read in the forum that
A. it doesn't work well and it was recommended by gl.inet to disable it, and
B. it doesn't affect load or heat when disabled.
Then in gl.inet interface I disabled guest ap isolation and rebooted ( i think it didn't stop before reboot and thats why i didn't get dhcp from another network device before)
I disabled dhcp on the lan, and left for the guest as one router is the router for the guest ( i have two, the second had the dhcp disabled for guest also)
I created the 4 out of 5 vlans (vlan 1 for lan was already there),
For the two wifi networks i created new bridge interfaces -
wifi1 - vlan 3 eth1.3
wifi2 - vlan 4 eth1.4
On the bridge interfaces i marked bring empty bridge and also force link.
for the wifi1 which another device is the router i used protocol unmanaged to not have ip .
for wifi2 i put static address (on my second flint 3 this was also unmanaged, maybe someday i will add vrrp LOL)
I manually edited /etc/config/wireless and replaced all 'lan' with 'wifi1' and all 'guest' with 'wifi2'
(edited with nano, to install: "opkg update" , "opkg install nano-full" with ssh)
then "wifi reload" or reboot.
(you can do most on the luci wireless menu, but you can't change the mlo ssid interface from there)
For mng vlan i created a regulard interface with just vlan 2 eth1.2 (you don't need a bridge here)
On the existing wan interface i attached vlan 5 which is my internet eth1.5 left all other conf like DHCP client.
Thats it, it works, on the /etc/config/wireless i also lowered the power from 30db to 22db i think 1000mw is overkill for default on the home, also changed the wifi to my local.
Now just need to see it is stable for few days.
I get 910 meg bits on my phone with mlo but also just on 6ghz,
My internet is 1gb, i need to test to something internal to see if MLO will work better than just 6ghz, my computer shows it is connected with 5 an 6ghz not the 2.4....
Still need to check coverage i tested from 2-3 meters.
would you mind posting an example /etc/config/network - wireless config? were you able to have it fully DSA or using swconfig for the vlans?
All vswitch, no DSA, the individual ports are not shown as devices, only the CPU interfaces,
attached is my network cfg file.
network.zip (1.0 KB)
here is my wireless file
wireless.zip (1.1 KB)
The only issue is you don't see runtime info, no clients at all, not in the gli interface and in luci no wireless working status what so ever....
Only active DHCP leases in luci but they could be connected on a different access point on the same vlan.
I don't care about that (much) as long as i have good connection as i want it to be (vlans and all) and i do have it, for now great performance, still didn't check faster the 1gb internet connection to something local (i have 2.5gb back boned home LOL, 1x10gb inter connect as well LOL)
how did you disable hardware acceleration?
ic, doesn’t exists in AP mode
Traced the issue to the VPN, it blocks the connection when it’s on so I need to look into why it’s blocking this connection?
- In the GL GUI, switch back to router mode, then disable network acceleration, and switch back to AP mode.
- In SSH, execute the command directly to disable the network acceleration:
uci set ecm.global.enabled=0 && uci commit && reboot
after rebooting, execute uci show | grep ecm, and check ecm.global.enabled='0', 0 is disabled.
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Thank you Bruce.
I’ll give this a try.