[TriLUG] Network configuration help?

[Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG]

On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 2:27 PM Brian McCullough via TriLUG
<trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 03, 2021 at 11:23:02AM -0400, Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list wrote:
> >
> >       I am joining in later but from what I understood, you want to
> > run two wifi networks with their separate APs: guest and private. I
>
> Correct.
>
>
> > too have an openwrt router which I have never been able to run two
> > separated wifi APs on; it might be because I wanted one to be 5GHz and
> > one 2.4.
>
> I should point out, if I am misunderstanding, that the primary router,
> the one that I am calling "OpenWRT," does not do WiFi, but just wired
> traffic.
>
>
> > Is there anything in the wireless network which is an
> > appliance that needs to access your private network? If not, consider
> > making your wireless by default guest and then configuring the router
> > to do openvpn (openwrt has the package).
>
> I think that the clarification is that the device that is to be attached
> to the Guest network ( or devices ), is only to be allowed to see The
> Internet, all other wired and wireless devices are part of the private
> network.
>
>
> > Now, if I missed something else in the thread, start with this fancy
> > ascii diagram and make it look like what you want:
> >
> >  [Modem]
> >    |
> >    | (WAN)          vlan1
> >  [Router]-----------+--------(port1)[All Wired Devices including WAP]
> >                     |
> >                     | vlan2
> >                     +--------(port4)[ZxXEL]--->--[possible wired
> >                     device, but also WAP]
> >
>
>
> How's that?
>
      Ok, so you have two routers and want to use the ZxXEL primarily
as an access point. Can your primary router do vlans?