[GTALUG] OpenWRT Upgrade

Val Kulkov val.kulkov at gmail.com
Fri Jul 10 16:04:37 EDT 2020


On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 at 12:37, James Knott via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

> On 2020-07-10 12:32 PM, Val Kulkov wrote:
> > then associate your guest SSID with that VLAN.
>
> Yes, you associate the SSID with a VLAN.  It's entirely possible to have
> a Guest SSID without VLANs on a WiFi router, that uses only routing to
> forward the guest traffic out to the 'net.  VLAN is a LAN function that
> has nothing to do with WiFi and SSID is a WiFi function that has
> nothing to do with the LAN.
>

Yes. I agree, you don't really need VLANs if you have only one WiFi access
point. But if you have more than one WiFi access point and you want to
avoid WDS, which is often not great in congested environments, you'd use
Ethernet and VLANs to connect your Wi-Fi access points.
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