Other uses of 'Unmanaged' protocol (proto = none)

greetings to all,

would guru's be kind enough to site some examples of using "Unmanaged" protocol (w/ some visualization if possible) ???

i find it useful on my AP where i link the 'unmanaged' interface to the VLAN & to its respective wireless SSIDs..., but that is the only thing i understand :slight_smile:

PS: i don't have any current use case as of the moment (except the above one), but..., i am just curious what else it can do.

Not a guru here, but I use it to manage specific ifup and ifdown events.

For example, my dump AP "AP1" is wired connected to the ethernet port 2 of my dumb AP "AP0" and I want to be notified when AP1 goes down and returns up. In order to manage it, on AP0 I added the new interface named MYAP1, device = lan2, protocol = unmanaged and used it into an /etc/hotplug.d/iface/99-myap1 script that, when "$ACTION" = "ifdown" (or "ifup"), it logs the event and sends me an email.

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that appears similar'ish..., used on an AP still... but added notification/monitoring of it.

i thank you for your inputs!