What is the meaning of wl

[demokedes]

Dear all,
I have Asus Merlin on my Asus router. I established monitoring solution based on this link.
In one of the commands, script is accepting wl parameter. As I understand it is accepting: MAC address of something, but I don't know which MAC address is accepting. If I use MAC address of 2,4 GHz or 5GHz radio I am getting bad address error.
Any idea?

Thank you in advance?

 

[capncybo]

Dear all,
I have Asus Merlin on my Asus router. I established monitoring solution based on this link.
In one of the commands, script is accepting wl parameter. As I understand it is accepting: MAC address of something, but I don't know which MAC address is accepting. If I use MAC address of 2,4 GHz or 5GHz radio I am getting bad address error.
Any idea?
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Thank you in advance?

Wl command - DD-WRT Wiki

wiki.dd-wrt.com

 

[heysoundude]

(the linked article seems a bit antiquated, but I'm amused at how the venerable old RT-N66u is starting to appear like the linksys wrt-54g did - a stalwart machine!!)
Which router?
If it's a more recent AC-series or the AX-series, people have done this work for you.

 

[dave14305]

It looks like it’s just counting the number of wireless devices connected to each radio. wl is the wireless radio utility. assoclist is the list of connected devices. wc -l is simply counting the number of lines returned in the output.

 

[demokedes]

Ok, let me answers few things: I am using RT-AC86U.
You're right. Command should count number of devices connected to wireless radio.
Problem I facing is, that I don't get the result.
Although I give MAC address of my 5GHz radio, I get error: wl: Bad Address. Any idea?

admin@RT-AC86U-9DD8:/jffs/scripts/routerstats# wl sta_info 24:4B:FE:BC:9DC
wl: Bad Address

 

[ColinTaylor]

You don't "give the MAC address" of anything. sta_info is the wrong wl command.

You need to change eth1 and eth2 to match your router's interfaces. IIRC that should be eth5 and eth6.

 

[demokedes]

ColinTaylor,
YOu're totally right! After replacing eth1, eth2 with eth5 and eth 6, it started working. Thank you very much!