I'm currently having issues with the guest wifi configuration.
I created the guest wifi following the steps below:
1. Created virtual interface (guest ssid) on 5G physical interface - wl1.1
2. Assigned wireless security to new guest ssid
3. Created a new bridge and configured network settings of bridge - br1 / 192.168.2.1 255.255.255.0
4. Assigned new virtual interface to new bridge - wl1.1 > br1
5. Created a new DHCP scope for the new bridge - br1
6. Added following under Additional DNSMasq option -
interface=br1
dhcp-option=br1,6,1.1.1.1,1.0.0.1
At this stage I should be able to connect to the guest wifi but every time I try the connection fails with no errors - just cannot connect.
As per your suggestion, I factory defaulted the router and started from scratch, rebooting router after every single step. Made no difference!
I've added a few screen captures detailing the config and the new nvram dump.
I've also tried adding the gateway of the guest network under DNSMasq options - again made no difference. If I'm not mistaken though, when you create a DHCPD scope it automatically adds the gateway option to the DNSMasq file under the /tmp folder - so that shouldn't matter.
Anyways, I've got it working by changing the config a little:
So instead of creating a bridge (br1) and assigning the wl1.1 virtual interface to it... I've unbridged the wl1.1 interface all together and assigned a network to it directly.
And configured the following DNSMasq options (in the order below):
Thanks! Yea will give that a try, but not sure if my router is compatible with 39572.
I've already found a problem with this config by the way. After a reboot, guest wifi doesn't connect until you go on to the wireless page and hit Apply Settings without changing any config.
necro thread, I know, just curious and best match on search
I am running into same issue but with much newer build (44715 on Netgear R7000).
Pretty much same procedure:
create wl0.1 and wl1.1 (2.4 and 5 GHz)
create security
create br1
create DHCP instance and separate subnet
--> at this point all good: able to connect to wl0.1/wl1.1 as expected
assign wl0.1 and wl1.1 to br1
--> this breaks it, no longer able to connect
went back and forth a bit trying different things. Interestingly, the virtual wifi remains broken even though I reassign them to br0 instead of br1. Only when I finally delete their entries from the bridge assignment table entirely do things start working again.
This is v. odd and keeping me from establishing a wifi sandbox for IoT devices, so any advice would be much appreciated (rather obviously a newer build as suggested in 2019 has not solved my problems)
Thanks
Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2022 16:53 Post subject: vap issues newer build
just following up on the above, updated to build 50357 (netgear r7000) which handily fixed most of my issues concerning vaps. However I have had to disable the virtual wireless again as having it enabled seemed to make normal wifi very unstable (or rather to make it restart every couple of minutes, dropping the connection, coming back and requesting passkey again).
I am wondering if that has to do with my router being old(ish) and resource constrained or some underlying issue in ddwrt that I still haven't addressed?
