What do all these interfaces do?

[martixy]

This is not an "issue", just curiosity.

GL-MT6000

The realtime graphs have a lot of different interfaces:

What kind of traffic goes through each?

Running ip -f inet addr show gives me 4 - the loopback, eth1, br-lan and wgserver.

From that I can deduce that eth1 is the WAN interface and wgserver is my VPN. I saw elsewhere that br-lan is the bridge between the internal switch and the wireless radios.

lan1/2/3/4/5 are presumably the various lan ports. However the traffic I see on the active lan ports is much lesser than the actual outgoing traffic I see on on eth1. I tried sending local traffic, but the lan# didn't budge. And if eth1 is the physical WAN port, what is eth0? It shows a similar graph to eth1, but always lower values and the direction is reversed.

I know some of the other ones are the wireless radios. And what does br-lan measure?

I see traffic on the following
br-lan, eth0, eth1, lan2, lan3, wgserver, rax0

(I think rax0 is the 5ghz radio, meaning ra0 is 2.4, and I don't see anything there because I have no 2.4 connected devices. lan2 and lan3 are the only wired ports I have plugged.)

I can run terminal commands if more information is needed.

[xize11]

The ra and rax interfaces are either 5ghz wifi or 2.4ghz.

The mt798611.network1 is likely the radio device, however connected to rax or ra, i think this device is more low level thus not reporting traffic, instead ra or rax can be used, but to check on the radio device you need something like iw to check it i believe, but since it is mediatek sdk (openwrt with closed source drivers by mediatek only supplied to vendors as SDK), iw may not be present.

as for acpli i don't know, i suspect it to be part of the driver to allow tethering via usb.

For br-lan this is a bridge connecting lan1,lan2 together etcetera, by default lan goes over all ports so the lan interface points to br-lan.

[bruce]

@xize11

acpli

Repeater Wi-Fi interface.