RiskyBusiness
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Finally time to upgrade the router again here since the RT-AC3100 is not longer supported. Still works great btw with excellent Wi-Fi coverage. Decided to go with the RT-BE88U for the CPU and the 2.5 Gb ports.
On the AC3100 I ran YazDHCP and YazFi to provide DHCP assigned IP addresses to the main LAN and 2 additional wireless networks (SSID) separated from the main. Before YazDHCP and YazFi were developed I recall setting up the networks via a script file, and later a config file to assign the IP addresses. It was easy to backup, maintain and restore the network quickly if/when a reset was ever required. I've been reading through the forums here, and see that the format of these files have changed with the 3006 Firmware, and of course the addition of the SDN/VLAN support. I currently have the BE-88U configured with my main LAN (wired plus separate SSID's for the 2.4/5 Wi-Fi), IoT (2.4 using same subnet) and 2 addional guest vlan's. I previously used dnsmasq.conf.add to handle the IP assignments for the main network, but I'm a little confused about the additional networks on the BE-88U. I've read the discussions about dnsmasq-X.conf.add (using X=1/2 for VLAN 52/53). When I ssh to /tmp/etc I see that the VLANS are configured using 5 and 6 (dnsmasq-5/6.conf). Is this something different than what everyone else is experiencing or is it specific to the BE88U. Also, when looking a the /var/lib/misc/dnsmasq-5/6.lease files created, the format looks a little different. The line looks like [ ##### (pid-?)] [mac] [IP] [Hostname] [ and on some lines what appears to be another/different mac ]. Does this change what has to go into the config file on this router? Previous format was as simple as [MAC,IP,HOSTNAME]. Just trying to wrap my head around this before I start plugging in cofig files.
tia
On the AC3100 I ran YazDHCP and YazFi to provide DHCP assigned IP addresses to the main LAN and 2 additional wireless networks (SSID) separated from the main. Before YazDHCP and YazFi were developed I recall setting up the networks via a script file, and later a config file to assign the IP addresses. It was easy to backup, maintain and restore the network quickly if/when a reset was ever required. I've been reading through the forums here, and see that the format of these files have changed with the 3006 Firmware, and of course the addition of the SDN/VLAN support. I currently have the BE-88U configured with my main LAN (wired plus separate SSID's for the 2.4/5 Wi-Fi), IoT (2.4 using same subnet) and 2 addional guest vlan's. I previously used dnsmasq.conf.add to handle the IP assignments for the main network, but I'm a little confused about the additional networks on the BE-88U. I've read the discussions about dnsmasq-X.conf.add (using X=1/2 for VLAN 52/53). When I ssh to /tmp/etc I see that the VLANS are configured using 5 and 6 (dnsmasq-5/6.conf). Is this something different than what everyone else is experiencing or is it specific to the BE88U. Also, when looking a the /var/lib/misc/dnsmasq-5/6.lease files created, the format looks a little different. The line looks like [ ##### (pid-?)] [mac] [IP] [Hostname] [ and on some lines what appears to be another/different mac ]. Does this change what has to go into the config file on this router? Previous format was as simple as [MAC,IP,HOSTNAME]. Just trying to wrap my head around this before I start plugging in cofig files.
tia
