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Virtual Wireless

The Virtual Wireless menu allows you to create and modify virtual wireless interfaces for virtual wireless networks.



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Interface - The wireless VIF (Virtual Interface) name
Enabled - Whether this VIF should be active and brought online
SSID - The wireless Service Set Identifier
Mode - Allows selection of Interface mode: Access Point, WDS, Wireless Client, etcetera
Bridge - Allows you to select which LAN bridge this VIF should be assigned

Physical wireless interfaces are listed wl0, wl1, wl2, etctera. An alias (like for physical interfaces) is identified by “.” + “ref number” so , for example, wl0.1, wl0.2 etc. Primary and virtual wireless networks share the same radio frequency of the main interface. The more virtual interfaces there are, the more SSIDs you get and the less throughput is available to each client (although this is hardly noticeable for say 4-5 virtual SSIDs).


Virtual Wireless Notes

When you create/define a new wireless VIF (Virtual interface), its MAC Address will be shown (incorrectly) as “00:00:00:00:00:00”, as it is unknown at that moment. It will display correctly as soon as the network is restarted and the menu is reloaded.

When saving changes, the MAC Addresses of all defined non-primary wireless VIFs could sometimes be (already) set but might be recreated by the wl driver (Broadcom's proprietary wireless LAN driver). Thus, previous settings might need to be updated/changed accordingly in the Advanced/MAC Address menu after saving settings and rebooting your router.

FreshTomato's web interface allows you to configure a maximum of 4 VIFs for each physical wireless interface available. You can define up to 3 extra VIFs in addition to the primary VIF (on devices with multiple VIF capabilities).

Configuration settings for the primary VIF of any physical wireless interfaces shouldn't be adjusted in this menu. Use the Basic/Network page for that instead.

advanced-wlanvifs.1642722372.txt.gz · Last modified: 2022/01/20 23:46 by hogwild