wifi0.1 and wifi1.1 Interfaces explained (more info, please)

[joel_hansen]

wifi0.1 and wifi1.1 Interfaces explained (more info, please)

[AnonymousM · Accepted solution]

So if you SSH into an AP and do a show interface, you will see the best explanation of things.

Basically the wifi0.x are the BSSIDs for the respective SSIDs on the 2.4 GHz radio and wifi1.x are the BSSIDs for the respective SSIDs on the 5 GHz radio.

Additional context for BSSIDs if it's useful.

Traditionally the BSSIDs look as follows for the host MAC.

MAC = 000000000000

wifi0.1 = 000000000004

wifi0.2 = 000000000005

...

wifi1.1 = 000000000014

wifi1.2 = 000000000015

...

[joel_hansen]

Sorry, posted too soon. Here are more details.

I have just enabled the SNMP and have setup a monitoring program. The interfaces showing on device per monitoring are wifi0.1-wifi0.1 as interface, there are many of these and not sure if SSID, or how to interpret. Some help?

Listed interfaces:

lo-lo

eth0-eth0 (which I figure are physical ports of AP)

eth1-eth1 (physical port)

wifi1-wifi1

mgt0-mgt0

wifi0.1-wifi0.1

wifi0.2-wifi0.2

wifi0.3-wifi0.3

wifi0.4-wifi0.4

wifi0.5-wifi0.5

wifi1.1-wifi1.1

wifi1.2-wifi1.2

wifi1.3-wifi1.3

wifi1.4-wifi1.4

wifi1.5-wifi1.5

I'm guessing these are to represent the SSID and 2.4 and 5.0 SSID's. Is this a intelligent guess or some more documentation on how these show in CLI may help.