Start / stop guest wifi ssh

[lbradio]

I was wondering: is it possible to start / stop a (already configured) guest wifi by SSH?

I would like to put this in a cron.

 

[Grump]

Kind of an ugly way. It will kill your wifi briefly. I have no idea if some clients can associate to a blank SSID, my android phone won't anyway.

# Bring down guest network
wl down
wl ssid --cfg=1  <-- make sure this is the guest network
wl ssid --cfg=1 ""   <--- blank out the ssid
wl up

# Bring up guest network
wl down
wl ssid --cfg=1 "OLD_SSID"
wl up

 

[lbradio]

Kind of an ugly way. It will kill your wifi briefly. I have no idea if some clients can associate to a blank SSID, my android phone won't anyway.

# Bring down guest network
wl down
wl ssid --cfg=eth1  <-- make sure this is the guest network
wl ssid --cfg=eth1 ""   <--- blank out the ssid
wl up

# Bring up guest network
wl down
wl ssid --cfg=eth1 "OLD_SSID"
wl up

I have been playing with your solution, but it seems something is not right yet.

wl ssid --cfg=wl0.1 (wl0.1 seems to be the guest network) results in:

 ssid: could not parse "wl0.1" as an integer for the configuartion index
ssid    Set or get a configuration's SSID.
        wl ssid [-C num]|[--cfg=num] [<ssid>]
        If the configuration index 'num' is not given, configuraion #0 is assumed and
        setting will initiate an assoication attempt if in infrastructure mode,
        or join/creation of an IBSS if in IBSS mode,
        or creation of a BSS if in AP mode.

But I continued with your idea of changing SSID to "" <blank>.

After a while I've tried the following code:

wl down
nvram set wl0.1_ssid="test"
nvram commit
wl up

which actually does change ssid on the ASUS Guest Network page. However, it does not broadcast the new SSID yet. I think some services has to be stopped and started for activating. When I enable another guest network on the ASUS page, the changed SSID IS shown. So I need a trigger.

Any suggestions?

 

[Grump]

Sorry I messed up.

--cfg=1

not --cfg=eth1

 

[lbradio]

Sorry I messed up.

--cfg=1

not --cfg=eth1

OK, now it's working

For 2,4GHz it is:

wl down
wl ssid --cfg=1 ""
wl up

When disable Guest network and enable it back, old values re-appear, whitch is ok.

Two questions left:
1. what about 5GHz. Should it be as easy as change --cfg=1 to --cfg=2? (already tried that, doesn't work )

2. When I do want to change ssid permanently, nvram should bring the solution. But I need to activate the changes. Any ideas howto?

wl down
nvram set wl0.1_ssid="test"
nvram commit
wl up

Thanks.

 

[Grump]

1. 5ghz
wl -i eth2 ssid --cfg=1

2. Not sure. Reboot? You'd have to look at the source code to see how the guest page brings interfaces/ssid's up and down the correct way. This method is just the quick-n-dirty way.

 

[lbradio]

1. 5ghz
wl -i eth2 ssid --cfg=1

2. Not sure. Reboot? You'd have to look at the source code to see how the guest page brings interfaces/ssid's up and down the correct way. This method is just the quick-n-dirty way.

Ok. Also 5Ghz is working. Thanks.

I assume this source code is not public available?
I know the command for restarting dnsmasq is service restart_dnsmasq. However, I couldn't find any other service names, f.i. wireless.

 

[RMerlin]

You can do a "service restart_wireless" but it will restart the whole wireless subsystem and its dependencies (such as networkmap).

 

[lbradio]

You can do a "service restart_wireless" but it will restart the whole wireless subsystem and its dependencies (such as networkmap).

I've noticed that disable / enable guest network on the webpage also close down wifi for a few seconds, for me this is not a big issue.

Thanks for your answer, restart_wireless it is.