SNMP and Wifi

[awrightus]

Running 386.7_2 on a RT-AX86S. I'm trying to figure out if I can monitor the 2.4 and 5 Ghz wifi interfaces via snmp. I walked the mib to look at all the different interfaces. Did a sanity check by just doing ifconfig -a in a shell. The only things that jump out at me are br1, which seems to correlate to my guest wifi network, and then wl0.1. Not sure if wl0.1 is the 2.4 or 5 Ghz interface, or neither. I would have thought there would be a clear interface for each of them. Any insight on this? Thanks.

 

[ColinTaylor]

nvram get wl_ifnames will show you the primary wireless interfaces. For your router I'd guess they're eth5 and eth6.

The wlx.y interfaces are guest WiFi networks.

 

[awrightus]

Ah, you are right on eth5 and 6. For each of those, there's ethX, ethX.0, and ethX.501. Any idea what the breakdown is there? Thanks.

 

[ColinTaylor]

The interfaces with .501 and .502 suffixes are VLAN interfaces used by the first guest network on 2.4 and 5 GHz respectively. They're used by AiMesh to distribute the guest networks to AiMesh nodes.

 

[awrightus]

Thanks. Appreciate the insight.